{"id":20867,"date":"2015-03-12T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T07:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=20867"},"modified":"2015-03-12T00:01:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T07:01:50","slug":"tv-host-phil-cousineau-wrestling-with-god-is-a-riverflow-of-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/tv-host-phil-cousineau-wrestling-with-god-is-a-riverflow-of-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Host Phil Cousineau: “‘Wrestling with God’ Is a Riverflow of a Book”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite, in September. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

A riverflow . . . that’s how author Phil Cousineau describes my book\u00a0\u00a0Wrestling with<\/em> <\/a><\/strong>God<\/a><\/strong>: Stories of Doubt and Faith.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And that’s exactly how it felt to be caught up in the stream of radically diverse life stories I was privy to in the course of\u00a0researching\u00a0Wrestling with God. <\/em>A fundamentalist Christian. A progressive Muslim.\u00a0A Hindu classical dancer. A Buddhist monk.<\/p>\n

(The book has its very own web page now. It’s www.WrestlingWithGodBook.com.<\/a> (Don’t forget the word book.)<\/p>\n

Phil Cousineau was kind enough to write a pre-publication endorsement<\/a> for my book. Here’s what he had to say:<\/p>\n

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Author and host of “Global Spirit” Phil Cousineau. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The search for God, or the gods, the Divine, the Great Spirit, is one of the oldest of quests. As timeless as it is, the search still tends to defy explanation.\u00a0What is left is description, narrative, and story, all of which are in abundance in Barbara Falconer Newhall\u2019s riverflow of a book,\u00a0Wrestling with God.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Seekers of all persuasions will feel represented here, from priests, ministers, and rabbis to engineers, physicists, and avowed non-believers.\u00a0Taken together, the storytellers of\u00a0Wrestling with God<\/em>\u00a0give voice to the reality of the modern world, which is multiphonic, skeptical, but also longing for deep meaning.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A riverflow — I can’t help thinking of the hike I took a couple of years ago with dear friends along a river that ran through\u00a0Tuolumne Meadows in the High Sierra. It was one of those beautiful days.<\/p>\n

Phil Cousineau<\/a>\u00a0is the\u00a0author of \u00a0<\/em>The Art of Pilgrimage\u00a0and the host of\u00a0Global Spirit, seen nationally on PBS and Link TV. The show resumes in May.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith<\/em>, by Barbara Falconer Newhall, Patheos Press, 2015, $14.99 paper, $7.99 ebook.\u00a0 Available wherever books are sold.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Phil Cousineau, host of TV’s “Global Spirit,” praises Wrestling with God<\/em> as “a riverflow of a book.” Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1401,71,34,590,1402,1403,53],"class_list":["post-20867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-a-riverflow","tag-book-review","tag-dont-miss","tag-phil-cousineau","tag-quests","tag-the-great-spirit","tag-wrestling-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867","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=20867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}