Barbara Falconer Newhall

Veteran journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall is a hopeful skeptic whose moods jostle between doubting, seeking, believing -- and back to doubting. Hoping to get some answers, she turns to her fellow seekers for help. "Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith" is the result. In the course of writing her book, Newhall discovers that the divine is close by -- in the lives of the people who share their stories with her. They include a fundamentalist Christian, a progressive Muslim, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, a Native American and a Buddhist monk. Newhall has been a staff writer and editor at Good Housekeeping magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune and the Contra Costa Times. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. "Wrestling with God" is Newhall's first book. She continues to ask the Big Questions in the essays -- sometimes humorous, always provocative -- that she publishes on her website.