"Any seeker of any faith will be blessed to read the words of this fine author and observer." -- ★ Publishers Weekly, starred review "A riverflow of a book that gives voice to the reality of the modern world, which is multiphonic, skeptical, but also longing for deep meaning." -- Phil Cousineau, Author of "The Art of Pilgrimage" A journalist's pilgrimage through the religions of the world in search of a way to believe in God - or Something -- in our globalized, secularized world. An inveterate doubter for most of her adult life, award-winning journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall embarks upon a quest to find a way to believe in God in the twenty-first century. The result is Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith , which details her search for the Divine in the lives of diverse Americans - from a fundamentalist Christian to a progressive Muslim to a Buddhist monk. In Wrestling with God , Newhall presents the deeply personal stories of a score of Americans she encountered on her journey-believers, skeptics, contemplatives, activists. She also reports on the progress of her own rocky spiritual journey and how ultimately she arrives at a place of surrender to the universe's enduring mystery. Wrestling with God includes a foreword by Don Lattin, who covered the religion beat for the San Francisco Chronicle and is the author of Distilled Spirits and The Harvard Psychedelic Club . Among the storytellers of Wrestling with God are: 
An atheist who conducts an experiment on GodA Buddhist who embarks upon a 650-mile bowing pilgrimage up the coast of CaliforniaA World War II veteran who shouts angry words at God as he endures a forced march across Germany
A Nobel laureate who believes that science, like religion, requires faithA Congregationalist minister who questions God's goodness