Philip Yancey
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In a twenty-year span starting in the mid-nineties, research shows that favorable opinions of Christianity have plummeted drastically. Yancey explores what may have contributed to hostility toward Evangelicals, especially in their mixing of faith and politics instead of embracing more grace-filled ways of presenting the gospel. Then he explores why Christian faith matters and what could reignite its appeal to future generations.
Author
Publisher
Faithwords
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The author, a journalist and spiritual seeker has always struggled with the most basic questions of the Christian faith. The question he tackles in this book concerns the practical value of belief in God. His search for the answer to this question took him to some amazing settings around the world: Mumbai, India when the firing started during the terrorist attacks; at the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated; on the Virginia Tech campus...
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this searing meditation on the bonds of family and the danger of extremist faith, one of today's most celebrated Christian writers recounts his unexpected journey from a strict fundamentalist upbringing to a life of compassion and grace -- a revelatory memoir in the tradition of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy. Raised by an impoverished widow who earned room and board as a Bible teacher in 1950s Atlanta, Philip Yancey and his brother, Marshall, found...