Cathleen Falsani

Cathleen Falsani
Born	(1970-09-25) September 25, 1970 Connecticut
Education	Graduate of Wheaton College, master's degrees from Northwestern University and Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Occupation	Journalist, author, blogger
Spouse(s)	Maurice Possley
Website	http://www.cathleenfalsani.com

Cathleen Falsani (born September 25, 1970) is an American journalist, author and blogger. She is religion columnist who has written for The Orange County Register in Southern California and the Chicago Sun Times. Falsani is the author of several non-fiction books on religious, spiritual, and cultural issues.

She was the 2005 Religion Writer of the Year, as awarded by the Religion Newswriters Association.

Education

Falsani graduated from Wheaton College in 1992, and holds master's degrees in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and in theological studies from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois.{{cite }} She was born into a Roman Catholic family of Irish and Italian descent, but her parents left the Catholic church when she was 10 years old. With her younger brother, she was reared as evangelical Protestants from grade school forward, largely in a Southern Baptist church in Fairfield, Connecticut. Falsani attended Christian Heritage School, an evangelical Christian prep school in Trumbull, Connecticut, matriculating in 1988. She pursued undergraduate studies at Wheaton College in Illinois, the evangelical Christian school that also counts the Reverend Billy Graham among its alumni.

Career

Falsani is the author of The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People, a collection of 32 spiritual profiles of famous "culture shapers" including Bono, Elie Wiesel, Anne Rice, Hakeem Olajuwon. Falsani's first book, it was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2006, launching Sarah Crichton Books, a new imprint of the publisher. It was named among the best non-fiction books of 2006 by the Christian Science Monitor.

In early 2007, Falsani left the Chicago Sun-Times as its religion reporter after 10 years, but continued on as the paper's religion columnist until Jan 13, 2010. She wrote, Sin Boldly: A Field Guide For Grace (2008) a spiritual memoir and travelogue and The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers (2009), both published by Zondervan.

Falsani has been a columnist for the Religion News Service and a columnist and contributing editor at Sojourners magazine. She also was Web Editor and Director of New Media for Sojourners from 2011 to 2012. Cathleen worked for The Orange County Register from 2013 to 2014.

Since 2004, she has been the author of a religion-and-popular culture blog called "The Dude Abides".

Interview with Obama on religion

In March 2004, Falsani conducted an interview with Barack Obama. At the time of the interview, Obama was a state senator from Illinois and democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in the 2004 election. The interview focused on Obama's religious beliefs and spiritual predilections.

Personal

Falsani was born and raised in Connecticut. Since 1997, Falsani has been married to Maurice Possley a former Chicago Tribune investigative reporter and author. The couple has a son adopted from Malawi in 2010 and they live in Laguna Beach, California.

External links

• Official website
• (on The Dude Abides)