Comments on: Age Happens

By: Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 02:22:33 +0000

In reply to Doris Serviss. You write a most encouraging note, Doris, and have a great attitude in facing your own health challenge. I do need to clear up one point though: I don't have a brain tumor! My overall health is fine, thank you. --Philip

By: Doris Serviss

Doris Serviss — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 22:23:34 +0000

Sorry to hear re: your brain tumor, trust you’re still doing well!
I, too have read most all your books & am currently reading “Vanishing Grace”~~you’re a wonderful author & I enjoy so much hearing a bit of ur back-ground.
I’m 80 yrs. old, & have a rare muscle disease which is slowly sapping the strength fr. me ~ but, I’m ready to go home to be w. Jesus, so will see u there someday, Philip!

By: Vicki Bee

Vicki Bee — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 02:37:47 +0000

Well, I doubt any of them had a “growth” in their brain, as I have, which pretty much guarantees I won’t still be around at 102. Even though my Aunt Rosemary, my biological mother’s sister, is still alive in her 80’s. My biological mother died at 65. My biological father died at 67. Neither was a paragon of health so I have no idea how long I’m destined to live, unless they DON’T find a way to fix the “tumor” in my brain so that it doesn’t burst and fill the brain with blood, thereby precipitating a CVA (a stroke) for emergency reasons that will not fail in its mission to kill me. That’s the main reason I became a vegetarian.

Quotes explained: I call a growth a tumor and so did the brain surgeon who treats me. My psychiatrist insisted on calling it a growth. Which is fine for him, since it’s not his brain in which said “growth” currently resides.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 19:21:29 +0000

To the quote of Robert Baker – YES!

By: Mufasa

Mufasa — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:50:33 +0000

Mr. Yancey,

You’ve done good work sir. Keep it up 🙂

That is all,

By: Peter Kushkowski

Peter Kushkowski — Mon, 26 May 2014 19:00:17 +0000

Just picked up, and am enjoying, your “Rumors of Another World.” Its 2003 copyright year has me wondering why it doesn’t show up on your website? Great read so far…

Hi Peter, Joannie here. You are very observant. The book was re-titled as: A Skeptic’s Guide to Faith. https://philipyancey.com/a-skeptics-guide-to-faith
Glad you are enjoying it!

By: Jennifer H.

Jennifer H. — Mon, 26 May 2014 16:53:47 +0000

Hi Mr. Yancey,

Am a long-time reader/fan.

Grew up on Campus Life. Westmont graduate, ’91. Teaching 1st Grade in a public school here in SoCal. I have recently undergone thyroid cancer treatment, and a friend recommended to me The Question That Never Goes Away and am so relieved that your perspective and reflections exist! I will be passing this book along to others inside and outside the Christian faith for a long long time. How honest. How beautifully connected you are to REAL levels of pain and terror.

The shootings in Santa Barbara just happened.

Question for you. Thinking big picture: How can we practically and effectively serve/help/heal the children and families who are suffering from mental health problems so that the slayings stop? It is an epidemic! What is going on? Here is my solution: I want there to be more mental health resources in our public schools starting in Pre-K. So we need money. So we need to write letters and campaign and vote and PRAY. Our school district’s counseling grant runs out in August of this year, and the gold-standard of a counselor, Jackie, will disappear from the lives our little people, from our community because of this loss.

Trying not to vent, but reaching out in a state of shock.

God bless you and your ministry,

Jennifer
I was in the UK when this event happened, and so I feel out of touch. The shooter was British-born, though, so the news has covered it. Oh, so sad. Memories of Sandy Hook and Newtown came flooding back. There is no easy solution, and some of the proposals (stricter gun control especially) spark fierce debate. Surely we need measures in place to identify those at risk. As I understand it, the shooter’s mother even alerted authorities, but no real action was taken. Again and again there’s a breakdown in an overworked system. Thank you for your concern. Movements are born out of passions such as yours.

By: Julia D.

Julia D. — Sun, 25 May 2014 19:56:00 +0000

I enjoyed this commentary about aging. At nearly 58, I am enjoying getting older and I love being able to remember a half-century of history! As I am always telling my husband, “It’s a great time to be old!”

By: Ann Braker. (Facebook name. Ann Braker Walton.))

Ann Braker. (Facebook name. Ann Braker Walton.)) — Sat, 24 May 2014 10:15:00 +0000

Sorry Philip I mis-quoted… ‘each night’ should be ‘yet nightly’ but I don’t think James Montgomery would mind.. He reached home in 1854 aged 72 yrs.
The hymn is ” Forever with the Lord.” the end of the first verse.
” Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam,
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day’s march nearer home.”

By: Barb Stellwagen

Barb Stellwagen — Sat, 24 May 2014 03:41:24 +0000

Though I've really enjoyed reading the blog (& your books!), I don't have a comment, but a question & I can't find anywhere else on the website to contact you. My family & I will be traveling to Russia this summer to visit our adopted sons' family, friends & former neighbors. We would very much like to share with them who Jesus is and how to have a personal relationship with Him. I was thinking it would be great to have a book in the Russian language to leave with them. Would any of your books be translated into Russian? Would there be one that you would recommend specifically? Over the years, I have benefited greatly from your insights through your books & I thought if they were translated into Russian, they would be good to share. We want desperately to let them know how much God loves them through Jesus. Would you please let me know soon if you have any suggestions for us. Thanks SO much! Yes, at least six of my books are available in Russian, from Triad Publishing. Some Russian Orthodox churches have bookshops which stock them; I'm not sure where else to buy Christian books in Russia. I'd recommend The Jesus I Never Knew and What's So Amazing About Grace. How wonderful that you're connecting your sons' past and present! May it go well.