{"id":28002,"date":"2017-12-11T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T08:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.125\/~barbass7\/bfn\/?p=28002"},"modified":"2017-12-11T00:01:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T08:01:39","slug":"holiday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/holiday-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"A Holiday Gift for Our Times: Give Them a Copy of ‘Wrestling with God’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A holiday gift for tumultuous times.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Ready for some shameless self-promotion? Here it comes:<\/p>\n

How about ordering copies of my book, “Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith,”<\/a> for some of the folks on your holiday gift list?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

It’s also a book for skeptics — folks in search of a way to believe in God, or Something, in our 21st-century world.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, and Publishers Weekly gave it a coveted starred review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It’s my gift to the world.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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“Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith,” is a thought-provoking holiday gift for believers and doubters alike. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2063,35,2064,2065,1839,2066,1016,2067,2068,2069,286,2070,53],"class_list":["post-28002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-books-as-gifts","tag-christmas","tag-gift-giving","tag-gift-ideas-gifts","tag-hanukkah","tag-holiday-gifts","tag-interfaith","tag-interfaith-books","tag-kwanza","tag-multi-faith","tag-multicultural","tag-multicultural-books","tag-wrestling-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}