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Welcome to the official website for Philip Yancey, an author who explores the most challenging issues of the Christian faith.

We invite you to bring your curiosity and doubts as you enjoy Philip’s blog posts, interviews, writing samples, and book profiles.

Recent Blog Posts

A Political Tightrope

A few weeks ago I posted a note from Eastern Canada: “As believers, help us to understand what is going on in your country with …

Polishing Mirrors for Heaven

I have visited Russia twice. The first time, in 1991, I found a nation in deep chaos. The Soviet Union was rapidly disintegrating, and that …

Cosmic Faith

Each year, as the period of Lent approaches, I turn to John’s poignant account of Jesus’ last supper with his disciples. The pace slows as …

God’s Masterpiece

More than two centuries before the Reformation, a theological debate broke out pitting the premier theologian Thomas Aquinas against an upstart Franciscan priest from Britain, …

Featured Book

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Where the Light Fell book cover

Where The Light Fell: A Memoir

Where the Light Fell is a gripping family narrative set against a turbulent time in post–World War II America, shaped by the collision of Southern fundamentalism with the mounting pressures of the civil rights movement and Sixties-era forces of social change.

About Philip Yancey

For Yancey, reading offered a window to a different world. So, he devoured books that opened his mind, challenged his upbringing, and went against what he had been taught. A sense of betrayal engulfed him. “I felt I had been lied to. For instance, what I learned from a book like To Kill a Mockingbird or Black Like Me contradicted the racism I encountered in church. I went through a period of reacting against everything I was taught, and even discarding my faith. I began my journey back mainly by encountering a world very different than I had been taught, an expansive world of beauty and goodness. Along the way I realized that God had been misrepresented to me. Cautiously, warily, I returned, circling around the faith to see if it might be true.”