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Philip Yancey
Goodreads Author
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Atlanta, Georgia, The United States
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March 2013
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What's So Amazing About Grace?
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1997
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68 editions
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The Jesus I Never Knew
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1995
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77 editions
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Where Is God When It Hurts?
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1977
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50 editions
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Disappointment with God
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1988
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62 editions
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Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
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2006
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4 editions
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Where the Light Fell
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2021
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9 editions
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Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church
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2001
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41 editions
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The Bible Jesus Read
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1999
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39 editions
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Reaching for the Invisible God
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2000
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27 editions
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Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing?
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2003
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33 editions
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From Tears to Laughter
Jürgen Moltmann, the German scholar acknowledged as “the most widely read Christian theologian of the past 80 years,” died on June 3 at the age of 98. In... read on
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| Like many who grew up in the fundamentalist/evangelical subculture, Jeanne Murray Walker has been through a period of deconstructing and reconstructing her faith. She is a poet and playwright, however, not a theologian, and her memoir reflects that s ...more | |
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The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
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| The rock star Bono famously sang, “But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.” Andy Crouch offers a counter-melody. As always, Crouch offers wisdom and perspective, especially as we navigate an increasingly technological and media-driven world. ...more | |
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| The UN announced in 2022 that for the first time the number of displaced persons in the world exceeded 100 million. No one can grasp that human trauma, but this book lets us glimpse it through the eyes of one family fleeing from war-torn Syria. | |
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| The rock star Bono famously sang, “But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.” Andy Crouch offers a counter-melody. As always, Crouch offers wisdom and perspective, especially as we navigate an increasingly technological and media-driven world. ...more | |
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Relentless: The Unshakeable Presence of a God Who Never Leaves
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| Transparently, cautiously, Michele Cushatt invites us along on her search for God’s presence, mining the Bible as well as reliable spiritual mentors for help along the way. To anyone who experiences pain, depression, confusion, or simply a nagging se ...more | |
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| A most creative collaboration, by a physician and a biotech scientist, that explores the healing properties of the human body, and draws analogies to how larger groups of people can exhibit those same properties. The church and the larger society nee ...more | |
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N. T. Wright fluctuates between scholarly academic works and more accessible works for the lay reader. This one finds a happy medium between the two, using Wright's formidable scholarship to enrich the breezy tale of one of the most remarkable men in ...more |
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| Mako tells personal stories, dives deep into biblical insights, and exposes the rest of us to the hidden side of art. Fine book. | |
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| Raised Amish, graduate of Wheaton College, now physician teaching at Harvard: Dr. Jeffrey Rediger is uniquely qualified to explore what medicine calls "spontaneous healings." There is no magic formula, but his accounts give hope to patients told thei ...more | |
“Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.”
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“Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.”
― The Jesus I Never Knew
― The Jesus I Never Knew
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“Where is God when it hurts? We know one answer because God came to earth and showed us. You need only follow Jesus around and note how he responded to the tragedies of his day: large-scale tragedies such as an act of government terrorism in the temple or a tower collapsing on eighteen innocent bystanders; as well as small tragedies, such as a widow who has lost her only son or even a Roman soldier whose servant has fallen ill. At moments like these Jesus never delivered sermons about judgment or the need to accept God’s mysterious providence. Instead he responded with compassion – a word from Latin which simply means, “to suffer with” – and comfort and healings. God stands on the side of those who suffer. (pp.27-28/What Good Is God?)”
― What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
― What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
“We are all trophies of God’s grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88)”
― What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
― What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
“On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka “nested dolls” that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80)”
― What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
― What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
“In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.”
― Christians and Politics Uneasy Partners
― Christians and Politics Uneasy Partners
“A clear pattern soon emerged, as demonstrated by many polls: the more prominently Christians entered the political arena, the more negatively they were viewed by the rest of society.”
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