An Interview With God

To my fans:

The First Edition of this work, over a decade ago, was written for effect. The God in that version was the God I thought needed to exist in order to be seen by non-believers as approachable, opinionated and far more human than He should have been made. This edition is not an apology. It is a much-needed correction born of an advancement in age and hopefully the wisdom that comes with it. The book and the movie were miles apart and that gap needed to be closed and the meeting in the middle needed to happen. That is the best part of being a writer versus the shortcomings of being human: Writers can go back in time and change the history of the worlds they create on the written page.

If only we had the power to do that in the all too real world ...


An Interview With God
For three years, journalist David Hollis has received letters from a man claiming to be God. When he finally agrees to an interview, he expects an eccentric, a fraud, or perhaps the story of a lifetime. What he finds is a man in a baseball cap and flip-flops, sitting in a nearly empty apartment with two lawn chairs and a cooler of beer.
Over the course of one extraordinary conversation, David challenges his host on religion, science, free will, evil, suffering, life after death, and the purpose of human existence. The answers are provocative, often humorous, and sometimes deeply unsettling.
But as the questions become more personal, David discovers that the answer he needs most may have little to do with theology and everything to do with his own life.
Rewritten and expanded for its 2026 second edition, F.W. Shannon's An Interview With God invites believers, skeptics, and everyone in between to question what they think they know about faith, humanity, and themselves.