Conversations with God is a 1995 book by 📝Neale Donald Walsch, written as a question-and-answer dialogue in which the author records the answers he attributes to God.
The book originated at a low point in Walsch's life, when he wrote an angry letter to God demanding to know why nothing was working. He described hearing a voice respond — first asking whether he genuinely wanted answers or was only venting — and feeling replies flow onto the yellow legal pad where he wrote them down. Published in 1995 by Hampton Roads Publishing, it became a publishing phenomenon, spending 137 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and launching a series of dialogue books that continued for two decades.
Across the dialogue, Walsch poses questions about love, money, relationships, suffering, and purpose, and the answers advance a non-traditional theology built on a few core ideas: that all things are one and God is present in everyone; that every human act arises from one of two emotions, love or fear; that there is no sin, judgment, or punishment, and therefore no hell; and that each person continuously creates their own reality through thought, choice, and belief. Life, in this telling, is a process of remembering and recreating who one truly is.
The book's claim of literal divine authorship and its rejection of moral absolutes place it outside orthodox Christian theology and within late-twentieth-century New Age spirituality. Readers have embraced it as accessible and non-dogmatic, and Walsch has since built a foundation, follow-on books, and a global speaking practice around its teachings. It remains his best-known work and a defining text of the 1990s spiritual-publishing wave.