{"id":20803,"date":"2015-03-10T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T07:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=20803"},"modified":"2015-03-10T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T07:01:09","slug":"its-launch-day-for-wrestling-with-god-and-im-hoping-youll-buy-a-copy-or-two-or-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/its-launch-day-for-wrestling-with-god-and-im-hoping-youll-buy-a-copy-or-two-or-three\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Launch Day for &#8220;Wrestling with God&#8221; and I&#8217;m Hoping You&#8217;ll Buy a Copy . . . or Two or Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20514\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2015\/03\/10\/its-launch-day-for-wrestling-with-god-and-im-hoping-youll-buy-a-copy-or-two-or-three\/\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2015\/03\/10\/its-launch-day-for-wrestling-with-god-and-im-hoping-youll-buy-a-copy-or-two-or-three\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20514 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0264-2-580x387-500x334.jpg\" alt=\"Author Barbara Falconer Newhall joyfully shows off her copy of Wrestling with God with cover design by Michelle Lenger. Photo by Barbara Newhall\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photo\u00a0by\u00a0Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s launch day for\u00a0<em>Wrestling with God.<\/em> It&#8217;s out there and ready for you to buy, and\u00a0I\u2019m hoping, hoping, hoping you\u2019ll go to Amazon or your local bookstore (in person or on their website) and order yourself a copy . . . and maybe one or two for friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>The book now has its own site where you can read about it and order it. It&#8217;s \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/WrestlingWithGodBook.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WrestlingWithGodBook.com<\/a><\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If possible, please get yourself a copy\u00a0today or\u00a0in the next few days &#8212; that will cause a nice blip in the book&#8217;s Amazon sales figures, which will raise its visibility to other readers.<\/p>\n<h5>The People You&#8217;ll Meet<\/h5>\n<p>Here are some of the people in <em>Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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\u00a0Moses\u2019 burning bush.<\/li>\n<li>Ani Zonneveld, an award-winning pop songwriter and co-founder of Muslims for Progressive Values.<\/li>\n<li>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 \u2013 three steps and a bow, three more steps and a bow.<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Chandler Felts, a Congregationalist minister who suffered a stillbirth followed by two miscarriages \u2013 and now wonders whether God is always good.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You\u2019ll also hear a lot from me about my struggle to find a way to believe in God \u2013 or Something \u2013 in our globalized, secularized, multi-faith world.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy <em>Wrestling with God<\/em>. A number of reviewers have already\u00a0said nice things about it, including\u00a0<strong>Publishers Weekly<\/strong>, which gave the book one of its gorgeous red stars.<\/p>\n<h5>For the Non-Religious<\/h5>\n<p>Even if you are not religious &#8212; or not even \u201cspiritual but not religious\u201d &#8212; I think you\u2019ll enjoy reading the deeply personal stories of people like Charles Townes, Martin Verhoeven and Ani Zonneveld.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for whatever you can do to get <em>Wrestling with God<\/em> off to a blazing start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2015\/03\/10\/its-launch-day-for-wrestling-with-god-and-im-hoping-youll-buy-a-copy-or-two-or-three\/\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2015\/03\/10\/its-launch-day-for-wrestling-with-god-and-im-hoping-youll-buy-a-copy-or-two-or-three\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20514 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0264-2-580x387-500x334.jpg\" alt=\"Author Barbara Falconer Newhall joyfully shows off her copy of Wrestling with God with cover design by Michelle Lenger. Photo by Barbara Newhall\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Wrestling with God<\/em>\u00a0has arrived.\u00a0Today is launch day, and I\u2019m hoping that my subscribers will be the first to\u00a0go to Amazon and their\u00a0local bookstores to order themselves\u00a0a copy. <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2015\/03\/10\/its-launch-day-for-wrestling-with-god-and-im-hoping-youll-buy-a-copy-or-two-or-three\/\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1393,1394,1395,1396,34,1397,1398,1399,1400,166,53],"class_list":["post-20803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-rocky-spiritual-journey","tag-amazon","tag-ani-zonneveld","tag-book-launch","tag-charles-townes","tag-dont-miss","tag-elizabeth-chandler-felts","tag-launch","tag-martin-verhoeven","tag-order-book","tag-robert-tharratt","tag-wrestling-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20803","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=20803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}