Where the Light Fell Archives | Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/tag/where-the-light-fell/ Best-Selling Christian Author Fri, 05 Jul 2024 15:26:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://philipyancey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-pyfavicon-32x32.png Where the Light Fell Archives | Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/tag/where-the-light-fell/ 32 32 A Cry of Grief https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/ https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/#comments Mon, 29 May 2023 06:27:20 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9882 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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]]> https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/feed/ 82 Dislabeled https://philipyancey.com/dislabeled/ https://philipyancey.com/dislabeled/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2023 07:34:38 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9690 My memoir, Where the Light Fell, tells the saga of my older brother, in whose shadow I grew up. Marshall was blessed with an off-the-charts IQ and preternatural musical gifts, including absolute pitch and an auditory memory that enabled him to play any music he’d ever heard. Everything changed in 2009 when a stroke cut ... Read more

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]]> https://philipyancey.com/dislabeled/feed/ 261 Faith, Deconstructed or Reconstructed https://philipyancey.com/faith-deconstructed-or-reconstructed/ https://philipyancey.com/faith-deconstructed-or-reconstructed/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2023 08:22:56 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9640 This blog is different from any of my others. It reproduces an exchange of emails I had with Bart Campolo about my memoir, Where the Light Fell.  Bart, son of the Baptist speaker and writer Tony Campolo, grew up in the heart of the evangelical subculture. He worked as an urban missionary and co-founded Mission ... Read more

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]]> https://philipyancey.com/faith-deconstructed-or-reconstructed/feed/ 78 Our Soiled Legacy https://philipyancey.com/our-soiled-legacy/ https://philipyancey.com/our-soiled-legacy/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2022 06:28:17 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9517 Last month I visited the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. Founded by Bryan Stevenson, this stunning museum traces the history of racism in the U.S., beginning with the 12.7 million enslaved people who were forcibly brought from Africa, and proceeding through the Jim Crow era and the mass incarceration of Blacks today. Stevenson, a graduate ... Read more

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]]> https://philipyancey.com/our-soiled-legacy/feed/ 29 The Secret of Memoirs https://philipyancey.com/the-secret-of-memoirs/ https://philipyancey.com/the-secret-of-memoirs/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:53:57 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9341 When I decided to write a memoir, I went to the library and methodically made my way through every memoir on their shelves. For years I had been writing idea-driven books, and now I had to learn how to write pure narrative. A memoir should simply tell a story, without analysis or commentary. Before long, ... Read more

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]]> https://philipyancey.com/the-secret-of-memoirs/feed/ 39 The Hopes and Fears https://philipyancey.com/the-hopes-and-fears/ https://philipyancey.com/the-hopes-and-fears/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2021 08:48:01 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=8890 I’ve always had mixed feelings about Christmas. As I sifted through memories of the season while writing my memoir, Where the Light Fell, I better understood why. In my elementary school, Christmas called for a major event in the auditorium, complete with a concert by the school band and chorus. For some reason I volunteered ... Read more

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]]> https://philipyancey.com/the-hopes-and-fears/feed/ 44 Kids in Church https://philipyancey.com/kids-in-church/ https://philipyancey.com/kids-in-church/#comments Fri, 24 Sep 2021 06:02:32 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=8708 My new memoir, Where the Light Fell, includes a few scenes from the childhood church I attended, near Atlanta.  How does this compare to scenes from your childhood experience? My most memorable Sunday evening service takes place when Dr. M. R. DeHaan, a radio star from Michigan, speaks at a weekend conference. It’s like the ... Read more

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]]> https://philipyancey.com/kids-in-church/feed/ 28 Ocean Summer https://philipyancey.com/ocean-summer/ https://philipyancey.com/ocean-summer/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2021 07:01:36 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=8601 I’ve been dredging my life for recollections to include in a memoir, which will come out in October with the title Where the Light Fell. Here’s a memory from one of the annual trips my family in Atlanta made to visit relatives in Philadelphia. I was ten years old at the time. One summer, to ... Read more

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]]> https://philipyancey.com/ocean-summer/feed/ 39 My Untold Story https://philipyancey.com/my-untold-story/ https://philipyancey.com/my-untold-story/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2021 06:21:28 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=8387 For as long as I’ve been writing, I have wanted to produce a memoir. I’ve read great memoirs on other religious groups: Frank McCourt’s account of Irish Catholics in Angela’s Ashes, Chaim Potok’s memoir-like novels on Orthodox Judaism, Tara Westover’s bestseller Educated about fundamentalist Mormons. Yet my own tribe of evangelical/fundamentalists, hardly a fringe group, ... Read more

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