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""Any seeker of any faith will be blessed to read the words of this fine author and observer."" -- ★ Publishers Weekly, starred review ""A riverflow of a book that gives voice to the reality of the modern world, which is multiphonic, skeptical, but also longing for deep meaning."" -- Phil Cousineau, Author of ""The Art of Pilgrimage"" A journalist's pilgrimage through the religions of the world in search of a way to believe in God - or Something -- in our globalized, secularized world. An inveterate doubter for most of her adult life, award-winning journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall embarks upon a quest to find a way to believe in God in the twenty-first century. The result is Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith, which details her search for the Divine in the lives of diverse Americans - from a fundamentalist Christian to a progressive Muslim to a Buddhist monk. In Wrestling with God, Newhall presents the deeply personal stories of a score of Americans she encountered on her journey-believers, skeptics, contemplatives, activists. She also reports on the progress of her own rocky spiritual journey and how ultimately she arrives at a place of surrender to the universe's enduring mystery. Wrestling with God includes a foreword by Don Lattin, who covered the religion beat for the San Francisco Chronicle and is the author of Distilled Spirits and The Harvard Psychedelic Club. Among the storytellers of Wrestling with God are: 
An atheist who conducts an experiment on God A Buddhist who embarks upon a 650-mile bowing pilgrimage up the coast of California A World War II veteran who shouts angry words at God as he endures a forced march across Germany 
A Nobel laureate who believes that science, like religion, requires faith A Congregationalist minister who questions God's goodness

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""Any seeker of any faith will be blessed to read the words of this fine author and observer."" - ★ Publishers Weekly, starred review ""A riverflow of a book that gives voice to the reality of the modern world, which is multiphonic, skeptical, but also longing for deep meaning."" - Phil Cousineau, Author of The Art of Pilgrimage ""In Wrestling with God, Barbara Falconer Newhall . . . combines the best of gracefully practiced and written journalism with the best of a personal spiritual quest. With a persistent seeker's humbleness, she asks good questions of thoughtful people from an astonishing range of backgrounds . . . The result is both an encyclopedia of the ways that twenty-first-century Americans make sense of the universe and their place in it as well as a personal memoir of Newhall's own, continuing, spiritual journey. The author arrives at a place of peace with the unknown, of finally bowing to the enduring mystery of the universe."" - Kay Campbell, religion reporter with the Huntsville Times, Alabama Media Group ""...a score of in-depth interviews with people from all walks of life -right and left, atheist and Christian, young and old."" -Jana Riess, author of Flunking Sainthood

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Prize-winning journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall was inspired to write ""Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith"" by the people she met on the religion beat at the ""Contra Costa Times"" in Walnut Creek, California.At the Times, she encountered seekers and believers of every stripe, all with passionate stories to tell -- Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, Buddhists. Deeply touched by the intimate stories she was hearing, Newhall decided to seek out a cross-section of American believers and put their disparate voices together in a book.Newhall interviewed a score of Americans for ""Wrestling with God,"" recording their words and shaping their stories into carefully edited first-person narratives. Newhall's own -- rocky -- spiritual journey is the thread that weaves the diverse stories together.Newhall brings decades of experience to her work. Before her time on the religion beat, she was a staff writer and editor at ""Good Housekeeping"" magazine, Zodiac News Service, the ""San Francisco Chronicle,"" and the ""Oakland Tribune. ""Born in Michigan and a graduate of the University of Michigan, Newhall lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She maintains an eponymous website, BarbaraFalconerNewhall.com, where, now widowed, she continues to ask the big questions with humor and grit.

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