Nationality American Religion Christianity | Name Philip Yancey Role Author | |
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Parents Mildred Yancey, Marshall Yancey Books The Jesus I Never Knew, What's So Amazing About Gr, Vanishing Grace: What Eve, Where is God when it hurts?, Disappointment with God Similar People Paul Brand, Tim Stafford, Lewis B Smedes, John C Maxwell, G K Chesterton Profiles | ||
Philip Yancey on the Question that Never Goes Away
Philip Yancey | Why Grace? | Sunday Talk | 25 May 2014
Philip Yancey (born 1949) is an American Christian author. Fourteen million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, making him one of the best-selling evangelical Christian authors. Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996, and What's So Amazing About Grace? in 1998. He is published by Zondervan Publishing, WaterBrook, and Hachette.
Contents
- Philip Yancey on the Question that Never Goes Away
- Philip Yancey Why Grace Sunday Talk 25 May 2014
- Biography
- References
Biography
Yancey was born in Atlanta and grew up in nearby suburbs. When Yancey was one year old, his father, stricken with polio, died, after church members suggested he go off life support in faith that God would heal him. This and other negative experiences with a rigid church contributed to Yancey's losing his faith at one point. After high school he attended college in South Carolina, where he met his wife, Janet. His two graduate degrees in Communications and English were earned from Wheaton College Graduate School and the University of Chicago.
Yancey moved to Chicago, Illinois, and in 1971 joined the staff of Campus Life magazine—a publication of Youth for Christ directed towards high school and college students—where he served as editor for eight years. Yancey was for many years an editor for Christianity Today, and also wrote articles for publications including Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Eternity, Moody Monthly, and National Wildlife. He now lives in Colorado, working as an editor-at-large for Christianity Today. He was a member of the editorial board of Books & Culture, another magazine affiliated with Christianity Today, and travels around the world for speaking engagements.
Yancey was critically injured in a motor vehicle accident in February 2007 but recovered well. By August 2007, he had completed his goal of climbing all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot (4,300 m)-plus peaks, the final three after his accident.