By Barbara Falconer Newhall
Ready for some shameless self-promotion? Here it comes:
How about ordering copies of my book, “Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith,” for some of the folks on your holiday gift list?
It’s a book for our times, imo. It addresses our multi-faith, multi-cultural world head on with stories of spiritual seekers of diverse traditions and spiritual temperaments — from a fundamentalist Christian and a progressive Muslim to a Buddhist monk and a bona fide Witch.
It also takes on science and the challenges science presents to the teachings of the world’s great wisdom traditions. An atheist speaks his mind. A practicing Episcopalian talks about reconciling his faith in Darwinism and his faith in God.
“Wrestling with God” is a book for believers — Christians, Jews, Buddhists — who feel the need to reconcile the reality of their own belief systems with the reality of traditions that seem to contradict theirs.
It’s also a book for skeptics — folks in search of a way to believe in God, or Something, in our 21st-century world.
Most important, it’s a book for readers who are picky about the quality of the books they spend time with: It’s won some awards, and Publishers Weekly gave it a coveted starred review.
I really believe in this book. It took me years to write it. It helped me to find a way to reconcile my 21st-century skepticism with my 20th-century Christian upbringing. It deserves to be read.
It’s my gift to the world.
You can order a holiday gift of WWG on-line through Amazon. But any book store can order it for you. Order soon, as it can take a week or so to fulfill. You can find some handy links at WrestlingWithGodBook.com.