This is a big day for me, a writer’s milestone — the big launch celebration of my book, Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith. You can learn more and buy the book at WrestlingWithGodBook.com.
Wrestling with God is an interfaith book for seekers of every stripe, and it’s getting praise from reviewers from Alabama to California — including a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
This book — my first — has been a labor of love for me. Work on it began years ago with an interview with Anthony Mack, a software engineer and a “happy atheist.” It concluded with an interview with Ani Zonneveld, a Los Angeles pop songwriter who responded to 9/11 by co-founding Muslims for Progressive Values.
All told, sixteen people of differing traditions and temperaments tell their stories in Wrestling with God, including:
* The late Charles H. Townes, a Noble Laureate physicist who describes discovering the principles behind the maser and laser as a revelation from God as vivid as Moses’ burning bush. Townes died on January 27 at the age of 99.
* Martin Verhoeven, a convert to Buddhism who gave up a Ford Fellowship at Stanford to embark upon a six-hundred-fifty-mile bowing pilgrimage along the Pacific Coast – three steps and a bow, three more steps and a bow.
* Elizabeth Chandler Felts, a Congregationalist minister who suffered a stillbirth followed by two miscarriages – and now wonders whether God is always good.
* Robert Tharratt, a World War II POW who survived a forced march across Germany and found redemption, decades later, in two German friends, one of whom was firing anti-aircraft artillery in Nuremberg on the day his plane was shot down over that city.
Patheos Press is the publisher.
If you read my book, which I dearly hope you will, you’ll also hear a lot about my own quest to find a way to believe in God – or Something – in our globalized, secularized, multi-faith world.
See you there.
Barbara Falconer Newhall riffs on life as an empty nest mom at BarbaraFalconerNewhall.com. Formerly a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune and the Contra Costa Times, she now posts weekly for the Patheos Spirituality channel.
Wrestling with God can be found wherever books are sold — including Amazon, the Patheos Press site, and your neighborhood bookstore’s website.
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