Best-selling author Philip Yancey writes on a diverse range of topics that touch on the fields of history, science, religion, ethics, and more in this new edition of I Was Just WonderingI Was Just Wondering. These stimulating columns originally written for Christianity TodayChristianity Today offer readers short, penetrating observations on this universe, the earth, the church, and the Christian life. Questions such as:
Why is sex fun?
Where did racist hatred come from?
Why do so many Christians feel more guilty than forgiven?
How do you write or talk about theology in a society that still uses the theological words, but has changed their meanings?
What is God like?
Why do people show great interest in "near-death experiences" but no interest in death experiences?
First published in 1989, this revised and updated edition of I Was Just WonderingI Was Just Wondering offers a level-headed, honest journey into questions that are just as important and challenging to readers today.
Philip Yancey is an American Christian author. Fourteen million 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, What's So Amazing About Grace in 1998. He is published by Zondervan Publishing.
Yancey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. 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. This was one of the reasons he had lost his faith at one point of time. Yancey earned his MA with highest honors from the graduate school of Wheaton College. 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 sister publication of Christianity Today 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 wrote articles for Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Eternity, Moody Monthly, and National Wildlife, among others. He now lives in Colorado, working as a columnist and editor-at-large for Christianity Today. He is a member of the editorial board of Books and Culture, another magazine affiliated with Christianity Today, and travels around the world for speaking engagements.
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