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‘Wrestling with God’: A Gift for the Believers on Your List — And the Skeptics

November 29, 2025 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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“Wrestling with God” — a skeptic’s pilgrimage through the religions of the world. Cover design by Michelle Lenger

“Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith.” It’s a one-size-fits-all book and a great gift for the believers on your list — also the skeptics, the atheists and the spiritual-but-not-religious.

“Wrestling with God” asks the big questions of a score of Americans of radically different persuasions, including:

  • A fundamentalist Christian
  • A progressive Muslim
  • An Episcopalian physician who has found a way to reconcile Darwinism and Christianity
  • A fallen-away Catholic who is now a Buddhist
  • A renegade nun
  • An atheist who believes in miracles

I am proud to be the author of this book. It got some great reviews, won some prizes, and readers tell me it has meant a lot to them.

‘Wrestling with God’: A Gift for the Believers on Your List — And the Skeptics

I commend it to you and to your friends: both the folks who see eye-to-eye with you on topics political and religious — and the ones who don’t.

I like to think of it as a book that inspires conversation, rather than polemics.

“Wrestling with God” is a quick and easy gift to give. Just head on over to Amazon, where you can buy it for $19.59 (or thereabouts).

It should arrive in plenty of time for Hannukah (December 14-22), Christmas (December 25) or Kwanzaa (December 26 to Jan 1).

Also, your local bookstore can order “Wrestling with God” for you, no problem. You’ll find still more options at the “Wrestling with God” website.

You Can Help ‘Wrestling with God” Reach Its Readers

If you would like to boost “Wrestling with God’s” ratings, go to Amazon and give it some stars and a comment.

That would be a sweet and generous thing to do for my book, whether you are purchasing the book for the first time — or you have owned a copy for a while.

The book market is vast and competitive. Those stars and comments make a huge difference in how Amazon presents a book like WWG to its customers. So, thank you for taking a minute to do this

Happy Holidays!

I know. I know. Last week I promised a rant about those trendy throw pillows cluttering up every bed in my house. Maybe next week.

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