Booklist correspondent June Sawyers called Yancey "one of the most approachable evangelical Christian writers. To put that together to try to filter out What is worth keeping and what should I discard? Thats what my books are about. I would just wander around in the woods and just marvel at the beauty of what is going on. Within the Cite this article tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style. 18) He felt safe with the image he had been taught in Sunday school. I was one year old when my little familys life changed forever. Have something to add about this? Philip: I think in 89 or 90, it was published. Then I realized, If God is responsible for this world, for the beauties/the joys/the peak experiences that we have love, those things, thats a different kind of God than I was taught, that scowling, distant, angry presence. Philip Yancey May 20, 1996. A lot of our kidswe just did some shows with John Marriot. My image of God was stained. When We Hurt: Prayer, Preparation, & Hope for Life's Pain, Inspirio/Zondervan (Grand Rapids, MI), 2006. God met me at a time when I was cynical and hardened and resistant at a Bible college - a place I didnt want to be. Natural Health, May 1, 1994, Ben Brooks, review of Pain, p. 145. LaSalle Street Churchand many of you share that experience; some of you met your spouses therebecame a spiritual home for me, a place that actually lived out what Jesus commanded us: to bring together, in unity and diversity, people of different races and incomes and beliefs. Keep that up. Henri Nouwen defines "community" as the place where the person you least want to live with always lives. Its an either-or: Which side are you on? Who wrote the music and lyrics for Kinky Boots? WebOn April 1, 2022, the Wheaton College Alumni Association honored Philip Yancey M.A. He saw himself as the wounded victim and Jesus leaning down to help him only to have Yancey reject the Savior. Editor at large, Christianity Today. Every time he leaned over I spit in his face. New to PW? Most online reference entries and articles do not have page numbers. Copyright 2023 FamilyLife. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. April 16, 2017 at 7:00 a.m. EDT. When Life Hurts: Understanding God's Place in Your Pain, Multnomah (Sisters, OR), 1999. Church, Why Bother? ." Philip slowly floated in the other direction. WebDid you go to the CultureFest and Rib Cook-off at St. Philip's College this week? But is it legal to make it a condition of employment? Philip Yancey grew up in a strict, fundamentalist church The funny thing is when a person dies nobody stands up and says, He had the foresight to buy Microsoft at a hundred. We talk about He was a good man and he was charitable; he was generous; he cared for children.. He assigns Erving Goffmans book Asylums, a landmark study of what the author calls total institutions. The following transcript of his remarks has been edited for clarity. Jesus spoke two ways. Take us back about your parents. They leave A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Philip Yancey earned graduate degrees in Communications and English from Wheaton College Graduate School and the University of Chicago. T roublesome issues like divorce and homosexuality take on a different cast when you confront them not in a state legislature But the people Ive gotten to know, the people Ive interviewed, the people Ive profiled, teach me that lesson: Pain redeemed impresses me more than pain removed. Ariass mother, Miriam, is Puerto Rican and his father, Tony, is Colombian. "When you grow up in a very tight, almost cultic environment, you have a corner on truth," Yancey explained to interviewers Gordon Preece and Paul Mitchell in Zadok Online. "Though he comes from a conservative upbringing, he is not stuck there but has moved past any labels we might try to put on him," wrote Zander Dunn in the Presbyterian Record. Zadok Online,http://www.zadok.org.au/ (July 9, 2007), Gordon Preece and Paul Mitchell, "Treasure Hunting with Philip Yancey," author interview. Until about an hour and a half ago, I thought this whole thing may be an April Fools joke. It encourages me to hear that, to paraphrase John Milton, they also serve those who only sit and click. "One method," he said, "was to inform God of something he didn't already know, or else to talk God into doing something that God was probably reluctant to do. You never even knew your dad. There was a Russian-backed candidate running against a very brave man Victor Yushchenko. There were four of us. Thanks also to Dr. Paul Brand LL.D. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. "That was the period where I rejected the church. Surely that cant be what God had in mind. Some other people in their church said, Yes, youre right. We were supposed to witness and have evangelistic conversations with people, but I would sit in the student center and watch basketball games. That title comes from a quote by St. Augustine who said, I couldnt look at the sun directly but I could look on the rays where the light fell.. Thats just an image - any sliver like that is part of the image of God in us. It does not store any personal data. Its an irony to be honored for distinguished service to society because I sit in my basement office and type on a keyboard all day. This is a different kind of book. (All of these have a Wheaton connection: Harold was teaching here; Dr. Paul Brands daughter Pauline was a student here.) Some readers may recoil at Yancey's need to revisit old wounds again and again, but this book will speak to a wide range of Christians whose experience with the church has been, at least at some point, unhealthy. God can take those things we dont want, and out of them create something we cant imagine. You have a great scientific thinking mind. Unlike other Christian heavy-hitters such as T.D. Publishers Weekly, March 9, 1984, Miriam Berkley, interview with Philip Yancey, p. 116; December 20, 1985, William Griffin, review of Open Windows, p. 37; January 13, 1989, review of Disappointment with God, p. 66; September 27, 1993, review of Pain, p. 55; September 29, 1997, review of What's So Amazing about Grace?, p. 85; August 16, 1999, review of The Bible Jesus Read, p. 76; July 24, 2000, review of Reaching for the Invisible God, p. 88; July 31, 2000, review of Reaching for the Invisible God, p. 55; August 13, 2001, review of Soul Survivor, p. 308, and "PW Talks with Philip Yancey," p. 309; November 19, 2001, review of Soul Survivor, p. 43; August 4, 2003, review of Rumors of Another World, p. 74; November 17, 2003, review of Rumors of Another World, p. 37; August 28, 2006, "PW Talks with Philip Yancey: Why Pray? Philip Yancey/Education. Soul Survivor, a Publishers Weekly contributor declared, "is one of his most hopeful [books], for in it he charts a spiritual path through all of the muck made by organized religion. Few people I know work hard in both. They believed in faith that he would be healed, but thats really Gods prerogative; not ours. By Lillian Kwon, Christian Post Reporter. Its not a typical, fairytale happy Christian memoir. [Laughter]. Writing for Zondervan, he scaled the Christian bestseller list with Where is God When It Hurts? (1977), Disappointment With God (1988), The Jesus I Never Knew (1995) and Whats So Amazing About Grace? He had only two books to his credit then, including the 1977 bestseller, Where Is God When It Hurts? His third, Unhappy Secrets of the Christian Life, came out in 1979. Philip Yancey introduces us to Dr. Paul Brand, a trusted friend, who worked with the untouchables of society to show both the value of each part of our bodies as well as the value of every member of the community of Christ. I dont care if I go to hell. Dave: You just explained it: What do I keep? He told Berkley that many of his assignments were "drama in real life; articles, where people have been involved in tragedy, and as a Christian I was puzzled by this problem of pain. Jesus would lean down, and I would spit in His face. If Philip Yancey could give his 10-year-old self some advice, it would be this: You are in an unusual, airtight cocoon, he said of the Southern fundamentalist Christian church he was raised in. They rushed him to the hospital and he had polio. She became a social worker and hospice chaplain. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. After graduating from a fundamentalist bible college, Yancey went on to Wheaton College, the so-called Harvard of evangelicalism. At 21, he landed a job at Campus Life magazine. 2 Where is God when it hurts Philip Yancey summary? As a writer, I play with words all day long. WebPhilip Yancey is well-known for his bestselling books like What's So Amazing About Grace and Disappointment with God. What shines through the brilliant writing of this once bigoted man is a redeemed vision of hopefulness and spiritual vitality." I think if we find those people, What is there secret? In my life as a journalist, there are people who become deep followers of Jesus who want to be like Jesus. That's probably one of the main reasons why I'm a writer today: because there are millions of people in a [closed] world like [the one in which I was raised]. How can I find the truth?, Dave: Its almost like as I read your book, heres one of my thoughts: Wow! You may have seen a week or so ago, the very brave Russian TV editor, who in the middle of a broadcast on the great victories in Ukraine appeared with a sign that said, Stop the war, stop the war on live TV. Both boys were relieved to escape from home to a Bible college, but Marshall later lost his faith, and Philip seriously questioned his. Christianity Today, November 19, 1990, Larry Sibley, review of Reality and the Vision, p. 40; May 15, 1995, review of Finding God in Unexpected Places, p. 66; August 9, 1999, Susan Wise Bauer, review of The Bible Jesus Read, p. 71. Such jeremiads miss the point of family, which is not a perfect institution by any means, but simply a place that accepts its members on one basis only: dna. In my case, I had experienced a lot of un-grace. In 50 years as a journalist, Ive learned one thing: Life is unfair. Philip D. Yancey's books are "fast becoming classics of the evangelical literature," according to Publishers Weekly contributor Miriam Berkley, in an interview with Yancey. Using many of the same techniques Jesus employed in his own ministry, Yancey tackles tough theological questions in a style that general readers can easily understand. Philip: Right, I would sit out in the patio and read books like Why I am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell instead of Andrew Murray and people like that. Yet that night on Russian television they announced: The challenger Viktor Yushchenko was decisively defeated (by the Russian-backed candidate). 56, John Stott, Fuller Seminary. As a journalist, Ive had the privilege of going around and interviewing people whose lives have been transformed by grace. He turned them both down to serve among the lowliest people on the entire planet: people with leprosy in the untouchable Dalit class in India. Today's Christian Woman, September, 2003, Corrie Cutrer, review of Rumors of Another World, p. 98; January, 2007, Lisa Ann Cockrel, review of Prayer, p. 10. He remarked to Berkley: "You cannot imagine, unless you've been in a background like that, how narrow it is." My mother was very faithful. He had revealed some of his background in 2001s Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church. In that book, Yancey described growing up in a fundamentalist church, how it caused him to doubt God and his eventual embrace of a more loving and grace-filled faith. Come to the Maidan Independence Square tonight in protest. Deaf people started the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004! There were no TVs on my campus. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY and the PW Logo are registered trademarks of PWxyz, LLC. [Laughter]. I had no idea that the young author had endured such deep family trauma and spiritual struggle. Rollman, review of Pain, p. 1612. Philip Yancey, quote from What's So Amazing About Grace? Furthermore, he also earned graduate degrees from Wheaton College Graduate School Dave: Were not fans of very many people actually. He has racked up 13 Gold Medallion Awards from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association and twice won its Christian Book of the Year award. These were not people who opposed him or were against him in any way. This organization has connected more than 130k people to churches. Its part of Wheatons heritage. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Yet, after a short while I get bored with people like me. WebYancey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. I start with the pilgrim in the pew. We can safely say that God can bring good out of evil; we cannot say that God brings about the evil in hopes of producing good.. As I tell in the book, there are three things that softened me up: the beauties of nature; that was my place, my go-to place in a difficult childhood; just take walks in the woods, collect butterflies/all that kind of stuff, have a dog. To find out more about PWs site license subscription options, please email Mike Popalardo at: mike@nextstepsmarketing.com. Therefore, that information is unavailable for most Encyclopedia.com content. But before I got there, I would pass storefront churches: Beulah Land Today Missionary Church, The Holy Spirit of Brotherhood Church of God in Christ, Water in the Rock Baptist. This is the group I came out of. Here was this brilliant man who had been offered Would you be head of orthopedics at Stanford or Oxford University? and turned them both down to work among those people, the lowest people on the planet. Yet, I couldnt quite make that connection to God because my image of God had been so stained. You can trash the word if you want to, but were keeping it because it means good news.. But youll also turn out people who will work for theHumanitarian Disaster Institute and serve the poor and attack racial injustice. After high school, he attended a Bible college in South Carolina, which imposed 66 pages of rules on students, including forbidding bowling, billiards, dancing, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, When We Hurt: Prayer, Preparation & Hope For Life's Pain (2006), Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference (2006). But Ive spent 50 years under grace. Everybody there has all the answers; theyre smiling all the time. Learn more at philipyancey.com. Hed lean down again, and I would spit in His face. Ive had the privilege as an author just to tell it like it is. When Yancey was just a baby, some The church had mocked Martin Luther Kingthe pastor called him Martin Lucifer Coon from the pulpit. In this Gold Medallion Award-winning book, Philip Yancey reveals a God who is neither capricious nor unconcerned. Christian Century, March 1, 1989, Mark E. DeVries, review of Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud, p. 236; April 17, 1991, review of Reality and Vision, p. 441; May 18, 1994, Frank Ramirez, review of Pain, p. 545; September 13, 1995, review of Finding God in Unexpected Places, p. 862; August 1, 2001, Peter W. Marty, review of Reaching for the Invisible God, p. 32; December 12, 2001, Wayne A. Holst, review of Soul Survivor, p. 25. Its a story book; its the story of my life, especially the early life. Why does He let us suffer?" But then I discovered that a lot of those things I was taught were wrong. Ive learned that pain redeemed impresses me more than pain removed. Philip: I did not. Ann: Sometimes people can be antagonistic. Much of the book details the unstable life the Yancey boys had after their fathers death, mostly a result of the strict hand of their mother. Philip Yancey is the author of more than a dozen books and hundreds of columns and is an editor-at-large for Christianity Today. Thats how I felt. Chesterton's insight about small communities appears in a chapter on "The Institution of the Family," which gives a whole new slant on family values. Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. Wright and Scot McKnight, though he often speaks at colleges and universities. If youve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider donating today to help defray the costs? Heres Dave and Ann with some takeaways from their conversation today with Philip Yancey. Philip: Just to tell you how it happened for me, it only takes one person, Dave. But its one I still cling to. A growing interest in science was among the reasons Yancey left a fundamentalist college in South Carolina to attend Wheaton College in Wheaton, Its almost like someone else incarnated the real image of God that I didnt know existed. He can be reached at haynescolumn@gmail.com. ." ", Over time, Yancey writes in Soul Survivor, he was able to dispense with the hatred and racism while keeping the faith. I think that has changed somewhat since 1979. A fancy TV western name that didnt catch on like fellow Wed love to send you a copy as our thanks when you partner financially with FamilyLife. It takes some time, because, as you say, the church is not always holding up those qualities. I realized I had been living under a shadow that traces back to that event. When we do, we usually mess it up. Education: Cooper Union Sc, Yez Santos Delgadillo, Agustn (19041980). 3:9-10). I remember the thin, fuzzy-headed journalist talking about a recent story hed had published in Readers Digest. I think it was about a woman who had been involved in some dangerous incident but survived and gave the glory to God. But you wont always be in that cocoon. After the Wedding, Word Inc. (Waco, TX), 1976. and The Jesus I Never Knew. "You perceive yourself as a besieged minority of truth and everyone else is out there straying. For Yancey, prayer involves listening as well as speakingand often the listening is the more important of the two. When he starting going to college the image of Jesus was many. Do this not because you have all the answers but because in humility, you know that you dont. Lewis before him, he was a reluctant convert. Positive elements of his life had pushed him incrementally toward their originator, God. In the process we also found a church. Let us know if corrections need to be made. Should we give him one more week?. (With Paul Brand) In the Likeness of God: The Dr. Paul Brand Tribute Edition of Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and in His Image, Zondervan (Grand Rapids, MI), 2004. [Laughter] This is great.. The word evangelical is increasingly becoming a bad word. I owe a lot of thanks to people along the way. Welcome to FamilyLife, Philip. The Bible Jesus Read, Zondervan (Grand Rapids, MI), 1999. Using examples from the Bible and from his own experiences, Yancey looks at painphysical, emotional, and spiritualand helps us understand why we suffer. (With Paul Brand) In His Image, Zondervan (Grand Rapids, MI), 1984. (Yes, 11 o'clock Sunday morning remains the most segregated hour in America.) I wasnt even seeking, and God reached down in an act of great grace and mercy and said, I can work with you.. Blessed are the persecuted. In the lower right-hand corner of the TV screen, while theyre announcing the great victory of the Russian-backed candidate, she signed, They stole our election. WebPhilip Yancey is the author of more than a dozen books and hundreds of columns and is an editor-at-large for Christianity Today. He proved it to me. , I was the tramp and God was trying to help me. Like C.S. It is also spelled Yancy, as in the 1950s series Yancy Derringer. When you say that word in so many countries, it brings to mind clinics and hospitals and people fighting sex trafficking and orphanages and educational institutions. The smallest units in society, families offer an ideal laboratory in which to test Chesterton's principle that "the smaller the community, the larger the world." I think maybe God wants Marshall was his name to be healed. They got together and they prayed. Those of us who trumpet "family values" need to make clear that we are not proposing a lobotomized society of Stepford wives and their offspring. Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. Ultimately, he couldnt survive without the machine to help him breathe. Well beyond his dark start, Philip Yancey has helped light the way. My story is I was saved from the church. As the early theologian Augustine wrote, I couldnt look at the sun directly, but I could look at where the light fell.. "Yancey, Philip D. 1949- (Philip David Yancey) I grew up in a church that did not do that. What I said was Here we are supposed to care for these people like the Good Samaritan cared for this tramp lying in a ditch covered with blood. As I said that, that vison flipped in my mind and I looked at the figure leaning down and it wasnt the Good Samaritan; it was Jesus. That was a fearful pandemic back in the 1950s and 40s. Marshall Yancey died, and his wife made another vow which Philip and his older brother, another Marshall, came to regard as a curse. Precisely! Ann: Because we have someone with us today that we have been a fan of for a long time. Nothing goes wasted. Ive always wanted to get married, but when fear of commitment takes hold of me, I find myself wondering if its worth the risk. We need both. Why would God allow it? https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/yancey-philip-d-1949-philip-david-yancey. Born 1948, in England; married Virginia Bell (a writer); children: three. If they lied about this, then maybe they're lying to me about the Bible and Jesus and God and everything else as well. I mentioned the racism of that church. See something we missed? I knew nothing of Yanceys journey when I saw him in 1979. Then I found a man, Dr. Paul Brand. It was kept from me. That was a period when my faith healed. ." And he found his life in the process. But during a prayer session with friends, he had mystical thoughts of the Good Samaritan story. "With common sense and a poetic sensibility, Yancey poses fruitful questions and offers real insights.". (April 27, 2023). I love how you write. Instead he shows how ordinary people, himself included, conduct their daily lives in a way that best magnifies God's grace. Therefore, its best to use Encyclopedia.com citations as a starting point before checking the style against your school or publications requirements and the most-recent information available at these sites: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html. Here in the United States, were so media-driven. Born February 28, 1948, in Miami, FL; daughter of Vincent Robert and Helen Gloria Napoli; marr, AGEE, Jon 1960- Yancey discusses his own spiritual journey in the book Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church. Finding God in Unexpected Places, Moorings (Nashville, TN), 1995, revised edition, WaterBrook Press (Colorado Springs, CO), 2005. They leave the faith so they deconstruct. Barth, Karl Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. It was the first time they heard each others voices in 51 years, he said. Yet I had never met anyone more full of joy - more fully alive. I was really thrilled that you would write and share that with us just to say, Hes bigger than that. That was another kind of cocoon, of people with a healthy faith who were not trying to impose that faith on me., It was a good choice for a young author. Some of us are stewards of pleasure and success. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. They ganged up on Kim and said, We understand evangelical is a bad word in the United States. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. And this is the God I found despite that group. And those who are in that same world now, I hope they find some hope., Today, 50 years after he left fundamentalism behind, Yancey identifies as an evangelical a word he knows has become fraught due to its association with science denialism, conspiracy theories, and a single political party, but that he says he will still cling to it as long as he can. His musings on these questions eventually formed the basis for his book, Where Is God When It Hurts?, an award-winning volume that has sold over 500,000 copies. When Yancey was one year old, his father, stricken with polio, died after his church elders suggested he go off life support in faith that God would heal him. She would leave us with neighbors and then spent all day right beside the iron lung. They included major world figures such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, poet and novelist G.K. Chesterton, seventeenth-century Protestant mystic and writer John Donne, modern novelist Annie Dillard, and former surgeon general C. Everett Koop. On behalf of Dave and Ann Wilson, Im Shelby Abbott. Open Windows, Thomas Nelson (Nashville, TN), 1982. President Jimmy Carter calls him My favorite modern author.. Why this book? You have to find a way to survive and break through.. Philip Yancey went through a deconstruction of his faith before there was a term called deconstruction.. ", Yancey's books offer "no facile solutions, no panacea to suffering and misery," to quote Sawyers. WebYancey starts the book off by his childhood knowledge about Jesus. This was one of the reasons he had lost his faith at one point of time. Ann: But I think the reason that I appreciate this man so much is because I know the struggle you have had intellectually, apologetically in the Christian faith and your doubts, and this man really impacted you. I didnt have one of those experiences., They are right. Philip Yancey was 29, an up-and-coming writer and one of the main speakers at the 1979 Decision School of Christian Writing, hosted in St. Paul, Minnesota, by the Billy Graham organizations Decision magazine. A fancy TV western name that didnt catch on like fellow cowboys Luke and Josh, but definitely has a certain amount of charm. Recently, some commentators have been attacking the entire institution. Dave: Yes, I would say my conversion was similar in terms of I saw a different view of God through a different person. We dont always consider where theyve come from and the wounds maybe that theyve experienced. Campus Life, Wheaton, IL, editor, 1971-77, publisher, 1978-79; freelance writer, 1980. The author, David Brooks, talks about the difference between resume virtues and legacy virtues. Resume virtues are what we are good at in America: How much money do you have? How many boards do you serve on? Where did you go to school? What kind of car do you drive? We spend so much energy competing in that. Second Opinion, October, 1994, Edwin R. DuBose, review of Pain, p. 111. Mike Haynes taught journalism at Amarillo College from 1991 to 2016 and has written for the Faith section since 1997. Booklist, May 15, 1994, Barbara Diltz-Siler, review of Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants, p. 1702; October 15, 1995, Steve Schroeder, review of The Jesus I Never Knew, p. 368; July, 1997, Ray Olson, review of What's So Amazing about Grace?, p. 1772; August 1, 1999, Ray Olson, review of The Bible Jesus Read, p. 1995; September 1, 2000, June Sawyers, review of Reaching for the Invisible God, p. 36; September 15, 2001, Ray Olson, review of Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church, p. 167; January 1, 2002, Barbara Baskin, review of Soul Survivor, p. 876. Plenty of churches preach about giving 10 percent. Dave: It wasnt because you werent intelligent and smart; it was a resistance to the religion part of it. Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Dave: You think about that; they would be canceled. Despite his renunciation of strict fundamentalism, Yancey remained religiously active and, after college, he began writing for the Christian magazine Campus Life. You actually know my dad on a first-name basis, having been classmates in college! Where the Light Fell opens up Yanceys childhood and early adulthood with no punches pulled, and the story isnt always pretty. Education:, Napoli, Donna Jo 1948 Grace is amazing. Every time He did I would spit in His face. He looks on those years with gratitude, because teenagers are Refer to each styles convention regarding the best way to format page numbers and retrieval dates. PERSONAL: Religion: Protestant. Later I realized that we were the bad guys." Philip Yancey was 29, an up-and-coming writer and one of the main speakers at the 1979 Decision School of Christian Writing, hosted in St. Paul, They wouldnt allow people of color to enter the church much less join it. Youve had a lot of guestsIm sure youve had guests who talk about being saved from alcohol, from drugs, from pornography, from whatever. I learned to trust books more than people., He also learned how to write. To unlock this article for your friends, use any of the social share buttons on our site, or simply copy the link below. How Yancey, now 71, overcame his strict Christian Fundamentalist upbringing to become a best-selling Christian author is the subject of Where the Light Fell (Penguin Random House, Oct.), his 25th book and his first memoir. In this book, I got to look at my own life and say, How did that happen; what happened? In my case, it was God choosing me; not me choosing God. We always had a prayer meeting. All I knew was that his advice to a couple hundred eager writers in an expansive meeting room was inspiring. All rights reserved. We need someone to show us the importance of both action and contemplation, the importance of this life, and also the importance of the next life, in a floundering culture that keeps widening the gulf between them. (With Brenda Quinn) Meet the Bible: A Panorama of God's Word in 366 Readings and Reflections, Zondervan (Grand Rapids, MI), 2000.
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