Philip Yancey is a Christianauthor. 14 million of his books have been sold worldwide making him the best-selling Christian author. He has been published by Zondervan Publishing. As a noun, Christian is an appellation and moniker deriving from the appellation Christ, which many people associate exclusively with Jesus of Nazareth. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... Zondervan is a international Christian communications and publishing company founded in 1931 in Grandville, Michigan, a suburb of Grand Rapids, by brothers P.J. (Pat) and Bernie Zondervan. ...
Yancey was for a period an editor for Christianity Today magazine and is now a columnist and editor-at-large. Yancey's works include Disappointment With God (1988), Where Is God When It Hurts? (1990), The Jesus I Never Knew (1995), What's So Amazing About Grace? (1997), The Bible Jesus Read (1999), Reaching for the Invisible God (2000), Soul Survivor (2001), Church: Why Bother? (2001), Rumors of Another World (2003), and Finding God in Unexpected Places (2005), among others. Christianity Today is an Evangelical Christian periodical based in Carol Stream, Illinois. ...
Yancey's steadfast support for his friend Mel, and his own struggle with the sinfulness of homosexuality is documented in the book and is one of the most honest accounts of grace in the face of struggle that I believe I have ever read.
PhilipYancey: I wrote it for people in the "borderlands of faith," people who have a spiritual sense but who, for a variety of reasons, have not found a home in the church.
Yancey: I'm a great advocate of doubt, because it's what drew me back to faith: I began doubting some of the crazy things my church told me! I don't think the difficulty is incorporating doubt in our lives; doubt is going to come whether or not we desire it.
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