Author of the best-selling series Conversations with God Neale Donald Walsch notes in a blog post that a Christmas essay he posted on Beliefnet.com was in fact the almost verbatim work of Candy Shand. Her ten-year-old article had been widely circulated electronically, reprinted in Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul and then formed the basis of an illustrated gift book, CHRISTMAS LOVE, published last summer by Gibbs Smith. Walsch says the essay had been “in my computer file for at least seven years” and “was written in the first person, describing an experience that occurred with my son 20 […]