Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey (born 1949) is an American Christian author. Fourteen million of his books have been sold worldwide, making him one of the best-selling evangelical Christian authors.[citation needed] 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.[1] He is published by Zondervan Publishing.

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Yancey was born in Atlanta, Georgia.[2] When Yancey was one year old, his father died after his church elders suggested he go off life support in faith that God would heal him.[3] In his adolescence, Yancey attended two fundamentalist churches that were strongly racist.[4] After high school he attended Columbia Bible College, where he met his wife, Janet.[5] Yancey graduated magna cum laude from Columbia Bible College and 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.[6] 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 & 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-plus peaks, the final three after his accident. [7]

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  1. ^ ECPA. Retrieved on 2007-02-16.
  2. ^ Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church by Yancey, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001, p 12.
  3. ^ Philip Yancey's Life. Retrieved on 2006-03-06.
  4. ^ Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church by Yancey, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001, pp 21-22.
  5. ^ Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church by Yancey, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001, pp 2, 45.
  6. ^ Soul Survivor - Philip Yancey - "About the Author". Random House. Retrieved on 2006-03-06.
  7. ^ ChristianityTodayLibrary.com newsletter 21 January 2008 reproduced in Random Musings from a Doctor's Chair (retrieved 27 January 2008).

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