{"id":14779,"date":"2013-07-25T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T07:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=14779"},"modified":"2013-07-25T00:01:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T07:01:19","slug":"a-book-contract-for-wrestling-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/a-book-contract-for-wrestling-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Yea! A Book Contract for “Wrestling with God”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Writer<\/a>
A book contract for “Wrestling with God.”\u00a0Photo by Jon Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Good news. I\u2019ve signed a contract with a publisher for my book Wrestling With God<\/em>. The publisher is Patheos Press. Patheos Books is affiliated with Patheos.com<\/a>,\u00a0 a heavily trafficked, multi-faith website and thus, I think, a very good fit for my book.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll be able to get the book on-line \u2013 as an e-book or a print book. And two bookstores have already promised to carry it, A Great Good Place for Books<\/a> in Oakland, California, and Book Passage in San Francisco and Corte Madera.<\/p>\n

As my ever-patient family and friends are all too aware, this book of mine has been in the works for some time. It all began when I was the religion reporter at the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, California.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland, California. You’ll be able to buy the book here. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So many interesting people \u2013 evangelicals, charismatic Catholics, Unitarians, Hindus, Muslims, Baha\u2019is, a Zoroastrian and even a Witch or two \u2013 but so little time to talk in depth. So little time to ask the probing personal questions.<\/p>\n

I always got the story I\u2019d been assigned to get \u2013 the church budget, the new rabbi, the vacation Bible school, the newly installed stained glass windows.<\/p>\n

But I hardly ever had time to ask the deeper questions: Why do you believe in God anyway? What is God like? Is God God \u2013 or something else? And how do you know?<\/p>\n

I wanted to know how people arrived at the beliefs, the faith, the attitudes, the certainty and doubt at the center of their lives.<\/p>\n

And so, when pain in my elbows, wrists and hands brought my newsroom career \u2013 sadly \u2013 to an end, I decided to go out into the field to interview a cross-section of American believers and doubters and get some answers to the questions that had been on my mind for so long:<\/p>\n

What can a thoughtful person believe<\/a> in this day and age, I wanted to know. Is there a faith somewhere that can withstand the challenges of our globalized, multicultural, skeptical, modern — post-modern? — twenty-first-century world?<\/p>\n

I interviewed dozens of people in the process \u2013 conservatives and progressives, believers and atheists. It took a while, but all those fascinating people helped me along on my rocky spiritual journey<\/a>. And in the end I got an — unexpected — answer to my questions.<\/p>\n

My deadline to turn in the finished and polished manuscript is February, 2014.<\/p>\n

Watch this space.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I’m cracking out the champagne.<\/p>\n

Now that I’ve got a book contract for “Wrestling with God,” you will be able to read more about the project in the About<\/a> section of this website. Thanks for your support! <\/em>Publication will be early 2015<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Writer<\/a><\/p>\n

Good news. I\u2019ve signed a contract with a publisher for my book &quot;Wrestling With God.&quot; The publisher is Bondfire Books in partnership with Patheos.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,50],"tags":[822,633,1037,1038,34,1039,1040,1041,488,53],"class_list":["post-14779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-rocky-spiritual-journey","category-on-writing-reading","tag-a-great-good-place-for-books","tag-book-passage","tag-book-publishing","tag-contra-costa-times","tag-dont-miss","tag-my-rocky-spiritual-jouney","tag-patheos-press","tag-patheoscom","tag-the-writing-life","tag-wrestling-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}