Cathleen Falsani Biography

Cathleen Falsani captivates her audience right away with her passionate passion and natural wit as she drags them into her vast knowledge base. Her subjects are culturally relevant, spiritually rich, and based on personal experience. Cathleen has interviewed and written about many world-renowned people in the context of faith, and she is the new Faith & Values writer for the Orange County Register in Southern California. From Bono, Anne Rice, and Barack Obama to Elie Wiesel, John Patrick Shanley, and Hugh Hefner, everyone has revealed the most personal aspects of their lives to Cathleen, including what they believe, don't believe, and why. Her work takes a new, often contentious, and always enlightening look at the ideas that influence our culture and life. Cathleen is a graduate of Wheaton College, the alma school of both the Rev. Billy Graham and horror film director Wes Craven. She is a Connecticut native and the granddaughter of Italian and Irish immigrants. (She feels a strong connection to both and admires them.) She graduated from Northwestern University with a master's degree in journalism and Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary with a master's degree in theological studies. She was a Duke Divinity School Media Fellow in 2009 and a Brandeis University Gralla Fellow in Jewish Studies. She is presently pondering whether or not she should return to seminary to obtain a Master of Divinity degree this time. Cathleen is a popular public speaker who has given talks and lectures at colleges, universities, civic organizations, houses of worship, and large faith-based conferences across the country, including the Catalyst Conference, the Wild Goose Festival, Point Loma Nazarene University's Symposium by the Sea, the National Pastors Convention, the Los Angeles Book Festival, and the Festival of Faith and Music. She's the author of The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public Figures (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006), Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace (Zondervan, 2008), The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers (Zondervan, 2009), BELIEBER: Fame, Faith, and the Heart of Justin Bieber (Worthy Books, 2011), and the upcoming Disquiet Time: Rants and (co-edited with Jennifer Grant and published by Jericho Books, Fall 2014). From 2000 to January 2010, Cathleen was a religion writer and columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, as well as a longstanding contributor and columnist for Religion News Service. Cathleen was the Web Editor and Director of New Media at Sojourners from August 2011 to December 2012, where she maintained the popular God's Politics blog. She also worked for Sojourners magazine as a contributing editor and columnist. Cathleen has reported on her varied "God beat" from places as different as the Vatican, Vedic City, Ireland, Germany, the Caribbean, the West Wing, the Playboy Mansion, and Wrigley Field's dugout. The Religion Newswriters Association named her the James O. Supple Religion Writer of the Year in 2005, and she has twice been a nominee for the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year award. Her work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, Christianity Today, and Christian Century, as well as the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Toronto Star, Kansas City Star, Madison Capital Times, Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, CNN.com, and other North American and European publications.

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