{"id":47554,"date":"2025-11-29T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=47554"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:02:35","slug":"wrestling-with-god-a-gift-for-the-believers-on-your-list-and-the-skeptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wrestling-with-god-a-gift-for-the-believers-on-your-list-and-the-skeptics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wrestling with God&#8217;: A Gift for the Believers on Your List &#8212; And the Skeptics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47562\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47562\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2025\/11\/29\/wrestling-with-god-a-gift-for-the-believers-on-your-list-and-the-skeptics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2025\/11\/29\/wrestling-with-god-a-gift-for-the-believers-on-your-list-and-the-skeptics\/ noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47562\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wwg-cover-square-crop-resized.webp\" alt=\"wrestling-with-god-a- Gift for the Believers on Your List -- And the Skeptics\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Wrestling with God&#8221; &#8212; a skeptic&#8217;s pilgrimage through the religions of the world. <em>Cover design by Michelle Lenger<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith.&#8221; It&#8217;s a one-size-fits-all book and a great gift for the believers on your list &#8212; also the skeptics, the atheists and the spiritual-but-not-religious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wrestling-God-Stories-Doubt-Faith\/dp\/B0DJKCJFCN\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2X8EZ4XKNWB9F&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Z2POA1HS3UkO7LsJmjx401bwZqpoUQVSiRz6NtTwjw_GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.1tifXZ-NUlDOVSDGHjLYhkfKjf9G0fei7J_bkwuhPJY&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=wrestling+with+god+newhall&amp;qid=1764382500&amp;sprefix=wrestling+with+god+newhall%2Caps%2C176&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Wrestling with God&#8221;<\/a> asks the big questions of a score of Americans of radically different persuasions, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A fundamentalist Christian<\/li>\n<li>A progressive Muslim<\/li>\n<li>An Episcopalian physician who has found a way to reconcile Darwinism and Christianity<\/li>\n<li>A fallen-away Catholic who is now a Buddhist<\/li>\n<li>A renegade nun<\/li>\n<li>An atheist who believes in miracles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am proud to be the author of this book. It got <a href=\"https:\/\/publishersweekly.com\/978-1-939221-25-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some great reviews<\/a>, won some prizes, and readers tell me it has meant a lot to them.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>&#8216;Wrestling with God&#8217;: A Gift for the Believers on Your List &#8212; And the Skeptics<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>I commend it to you and to your friends: both the folks who see eye-to-eye with you on topics political and religious &#8212; and the ones who don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think of it as a book that inspires conversation, rather than polemics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wrestling with God&#8221; is a quick and easy gift to give. Just head on over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wrestling-God-Stories-Doubt-Faith\/dp\/B0DJKCJFCN\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2X8EZ4XKNWB9F&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Z2POA1HS3UkO7LsJmjx401bwZqpoUQVSiRz6NtTwjw_GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.1tifXZ-NUlDOVSDGHjLYhkfKjf9G0fei7J_bkwuhPJY&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=wrestling+with+god+newhall&amp;qid=1764382500&amp;sprefix=wrestling+with+god+newhall%2Caps%2C176&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>, where you can buy it for $19.59 (or thereabouts).<\/p>\n<p>It should arrive in plenty of time for Hannukah (December 14-22), Christmas (December 25) or Kwanzaa (December 26 to Jan 1).<\/p>\n<p>Also, your local bookstore can order &#8220;Wrestling with God&#8221; for you, no problem. You&#8217;ll find still more options at the &#8220;Wrestling with God&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/wrestlingwithgodbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>You Can Help &#8216;Wrestling with God&#8221; Reach Its Readers<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>If you would like to boost &#8220;Wrestling with God&#8217;s&#8221; ratings, go to Amazon and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/create-review\/?ie=UTF8&amp;channel=glance-detail&amp;asin=B0DJKCJFCN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">give it some stars and a comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That would be a sweet and generous thing to do for my book, whether you are purchasing the book for the first time &#8212; or you have owned a copy for a while.<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n<p><em>I know. I know. Last week I promised a rant about those <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2025\/11\/22\/im-thankful-for-a-window-its-small-but-it-opens-onto-everything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trendy throw pillows<\/a> cluttering up every bed in my house. Maybe next week.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2025\/11\/29\/wrestling-with-god-a-gift-for-the-believers-on-your-list-and-the-skeptics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2025\/11\/29\/wrestling-with-god-a-gift-for-the-believers-on-your-list-and-the-skeptics\/ noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-47562\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wwg-cover-square-crop-resized-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"wrestling-with-god-A Gift for the Believers on Your List -- And the Skeptics\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wrestling with God&#8221; is great gift for the believers on your list &#8212; also the skeptics, atheists and spiritual-but-not-religious.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2025\/11\/29\/wrestling-with-god-a-gift-for-the-believers-on-your-list-and-the-skeptics\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1393,134,1600,1361,91,1441],"class_list":["post-47554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-writing-reading","tag-amazon","tag-books","tag-gifts","tag-holidays","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-wresting-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47554","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=47554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48424,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47554\/revisions\/48424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}