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What Went Wrong in Russia?

Philip Yancey — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 07:26:34 +0000

In the fall of 1991, I received an invitation signed by the two most powerful men in Russia. Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin were asking a small delegation of American Christians to visit their country in order to “help restore morality to the Soviet Union.” The government would host us in a luxury hotel owned ... 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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Music Amidst the Rubble

Philip Yancey — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000

As Holy Week approaches each year, I turn to my favorite part of the Gospels, John 13-17. Many other passages seem rushed. They leave me longing for more sensory detail and pondering the meaning of Jesus’ cryptic sayings. In these five chapters, the author slows the pace almost cinematically. After all, it’s the group’s last ... Read more

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No More Tears Left

Philip Yancey — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:21:20 +0000

For more than a month the world watched as Russian forces encircled the nation of Ukraine, while staunchly insisting they had no plans to invade. Now we watch daily as the horror unfolds. Artillery shells falling on a nuclear power plant. Kindergartens bombed. Apartment blocks and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble. A tank obliterating a ... Read more

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Emerging from the Dark

Philip Yancey — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 08:58:10 +0000

During Soviet days the authorities arrested and imprisoned my father, a pastor. He was sentenced to be executed, but Russia was constructing something above the Arctic Circle, so Stalin sent him and other prisoners up there to work in the cold. When he returned home, aged and sick, after 19 years, he learned that his ... Read more

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Big Screen, Little Screen

Philip Yancey — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:28:51 +0000

This week I leave for a trip to Ukraine, Belarus, and Hungary. My first stop, Ukraine, brings to mind memories of the stirring Orange Revolution that occurred there in 2004. In one of my books, What Good Is God, I told the little-known story of an unlikely hero who helped spark that revolution. Like other members ... Read more

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