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A Melancholy Thanksgiving

Philip Yancey — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 07:58:54 +0000

I’ve been working on a modern Devotions, which he wrote in 1623 during a bubonic plague outbreak. One-third of London’s residents would die, and in November Donne himself, the Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, fell ill. His journal of illness captures the melancholy mood of that time, not so different from what we experience in ... Read more

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Body Mindfulness

Philip Yancey — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:01:00 +0000

This month IVP has released a new, revised version of my writings with Dr. Paul Brand, Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God’s Image. Gratitude was the one quality that most impressed me about Paul Brand. For him, the universe was God’s own work of art, and the human body God’s masterpiece. He kept ... Read more

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Born in the U.S.A.

Philip Yancey — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 04:00:47 +0000

A friend of mine, David Graham, recently returned from thirteen years in Ecuador. He had served as general surgeon and medical director of a mission hospital, and I visited him there in 2013. We were on the edge of a jungle and, besides the normal equipment, treatment rooms displayed jars of fearsome snakes and spiders ... Read more

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