Conversations With God For Teens [Mass Market Paperback]

Neale Donald Walsch (Author)

Book Description

Series: Conversations with God | Publication Date: March 1, 2002

From the author of the New York Times best-selling 5-part CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD series comes God's answers to real questions from teenagers all over the world (hardcover, Nov. 01, Hampton Roads).

In the author's words, CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD FOR TEENS is "a look at all the questions that teenagers from every corner of the globe are asking, and the answers that I have received from God in my private meditations." Some of the questions include, "Are you listening, "Why do good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people," and "How will I know when it will be the right time to say, 'I love you'?"
To compile questions for this book, Neale Donald Walsch traveled all over the world to speak with young people in order to accurately incorporate their unique issues into his personal dialogue with God. The result is, in the words of the author, "one of the first books ever to speak to teens from God's point of view."

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Conversations with God for Teens reads like a rap session at a church youth group, where teenagers discuss everything they ever wanted to know about life but were too afraid to ask God. Once again author Neale Donald Walsch acts as the verbal conduit, showing teenagers how easy it is to converse with the divine. After the enormous success of his previous Conversations with God books, Walsch was asked to write a book for teenagers. So he collected questions from teenagers around the world, brought them into his private dialogue with God, and then printed God's answers on the page. So when Claudia, age 16, from Perth, Australia, asks, "Why can't I just have sex with everybody? What's the big deal?", the answer God offers her is: "Nothing you do will ever be okay with everybody. 'Everybody' is a large word. The real question is can you have sex and have it be okay with you?" There's no doubt that the casual question-and-answer format will help make God feel welcoming and accessible to teens. And the introduction by Alanis Morissette raises the "cool" factor considerably. Nonetheless, it's not for all teenagers: older adolescents (17 and older) may find it hokey or manipulative, and preteens (10 to 12) could find some of the questions too mature. --Gail Hudson --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Publishers Weekly

Neale Donald Walsch, author of the bestselling Conversations with God, here gathers questions from teens across the globe (from broader queries such as "Why is there so much pressure from parents, from school, from everyone?" to prickly questions such as "Why do you let children get abused sexually and physically?"), takes them to God, and offers the answers in Conversations with God for Teens. Singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette provides the foreword.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439313899
• ISBN-13: 978-0439313896
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (126 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #775,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Neale Donald Walsch devotes his time to sharing the messages of his books through writing, lecturing, and facilitating spiritual renewal retreats. The creator of the School of the New Spirituality and founder of The Group of 1000, a nonprofit organization supporting global spiritual awakening, he lives in Ashland, Oregon, and may be contacted through www.nealedonaldwalsch.com.

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128 of 174 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Conversations with God for Teens, May 21, 2002

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This review is from: Conversations With God For Teens (Mass Market Paperback)

The problem with this book is that the title is very deceptive. I think that most people would assume that this books is talking about conversations with the God of the Bible. Reading some of the answers from "God," it is obvious that is not true. A more appropriate title would be: Conversations with the god of Your own Making or Conversations with the god Within Yourself. Call me a "Bible banger" if you like, but the reality is that the God of the Bible would never tell a teen that there, "is no right from wrong," or to go out and celebrate her lesbianism. You can label me intolerant too, but it isn't me that is intolerant, it would be the God of the Bible who is intolerant, intolerant of sin. The bad reviews written about this book are, for the most part, coming from people who share the Christian faith that is followers of Jesus Christ and if you understand the true Christian Faith, you will understand why certain reviewers are upset by this book. So if you are a Christian, this is not the book for your teen. If you believe in moral relativism or even nothing at all, this would be the book for you.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars thought provoking, February 25, 2011

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This review is from: Conversations with God for Teens (Hardcover)

I am in the process of reading this book. I am more then half way done, and I would like to say that this book is thought provoking. It sometimes makes me smile, then it makes me angry, then it challenges me to go beyond how i was taught to think about certain things. If I want to. But it never demands anything. It talks with me. but in a way it also listens to me, because it has questions I have had growing up, and some of the answers. I am not a teenager. I am almost 39. And I still have questions after all these years. So I recommend this book.

96 of 141 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars get beyond your fear, January 5, 2003

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Glen Sooter (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Conversations With God For Teens (Mass Market Paperback)

This series of books has changed my life so profoundly and matured me at such a young critical stage that reading these reviews strikes me as shocking to remember how many people still live with the ideas of sin, judgment, and fear perpetuated by religious institutions. Let your teenagers decide for themselves with this book. If they are ready to consciously evolve, you won't be giving them free reign to terrorize their lives. You'll be giving them the greatest blessing you possibly could - a path to true happiness.

I disavowed myself from the Bible years ago because the judgment, idea of sin, the materialism and greed in my Christian church, and the fear masked in the language of love no longer served my personal growth. Yet my own Mother (a devout Catholic) to this day claims that I live the Gospel more than anyone else she knows - so don't go passing your judgments on me with your Satanic names like you have Mr. Walsch.

We are going through the greatest evolutionary transition our society has ever known. Many old economic, government, and religious paradigms and institutions will be replaced by new ones with a much larger vision of inclusion of all peoples, plants, and animals. Many people living in the old paradigm will feel threatened (as evidenced by this list of reviews). But the book's message isn't even anti-Christian. Yes, many of the rules created by the Church are dismissed as no longer serving where we want to go. But Jesus becomes a model to strive toward. He lived as we all could, and I love him much more now than when I was in the church.

While many reviewers have said this book will lead to selfishness and immorality because there is no idea of an external "God" looking down with judgment, they misunderstand it.

The whole point of this book is to provide a popular medium that gives people the okay to express their own free will and realize who they really are - the very founding principles of this American experiment in freedom. As a result, I have never felt closer to all of life, with a truly deep sense of love for all creation and have found a career that allows me to serve that larger civilization while serving myself. It's because I chose this path internally, and it wasn't forced upon me through an external dogma. Trust your teenagers with this book. IF if speaks to them (it may not), they'll find their own path to higher consciousness.

(please don't just say this review wasn't helpful just because you disagree with it - it only proves my point). :)