Grief Archives | Philip Yancey

A Cry of Grief

Philip Yancey — Mon, 29 May 2023 06:27:20 +0000

That first day, I awoke at sunrise in their basement guest quarters. Soft morning light filtered through the trees as cheery birds announced the new day. I opened a book I had brought along for a Zoom book group: In This World of Wonders, by Nicholas Wolterstorff, a renowned Christian philosopher who had taught at ... Read more

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“No man is an island…”

Philip Yancey — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:41:54 +0000

I’ve written several books about pain and suffering, and in 2013 I wrote yet another one, titled The Question That Never Goes Away. It recounted my visits to three grieving places: Japan after the tsunami; Sarajevo after the civil war; and Newtown, Connecticut, after the school shootings at Sandy Hook. The book had only modest ... Read more

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A Time to Weep

Philip Yancey — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 06:16:32 +0000

Some days—September 11, December 7—forever stain our mental calendars, and this year March 11 joined those “days of infamy.” The date marked not only the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic but also the tenth anniversary of a tsunami that devastated a coastal region of Japan. The tsunami surge did its damage quickly ... Read more

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