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UnscrolledSeason 1, Episode 9: Reconstructing Faith with the Most Honest Book with Philip YanceyPhilip Yancey is an American author who grew up in a strict fundamentalist Christian home, which led to a mistrust and eventually deconstruction of his faith. Yancey turned his attention to books and the Bible and eventually began to reconstruct his faith in God. Join Unscrolled host Matthias Walther as he talks to author Philip Yancey about his faith journey, upbringing, and how his writing and reading helped reconstruct his faith. Guest bio:Philip Yancey is a Christian, American author who has written 36 books, selling over 15 million copies. Philip Yancey grew up in a...2025-06-1241 min
The Beached White Male Podcast with Ken KempS6E28 Philip Yancey: Where the Light FellSend us a textPhilip Yancey's courageous and penetrating new book, his memoir - Where the Light Fell - will be released on October 5. There's a big audience for Philip's story. There are over 100 million claim to have experienced Christian fundamentalism and 25 million more identify as "exvangelicals." Brother Marshall, a musical prodigy, had perfect pitch. Philip's father contracted polio and died when Philip was only 18 months old. Ken notes that Philip's experience in segregationalist fundamentalism is extreme. Paul Van Gorder, Bob Jones, Jr., Lester M...2025-06-0657 min
evangelical 360°Ep. 30 / The History of Russia's "Holy War" in Ukraine ► Philip Yancey (Part 2)What happens when a nation rejects its moral compass only to find itself lost in the wilderness? Philip Yancey takes us on a journey through one of history's most remarkable untold stories - how Russia's brief spiritual awakening after communism's collapse ultimately gave way to authoritarian rule and war.In this fascinating conversation, Yancey shares his firsthand experiences from the early 1990s when both Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin made an extraordinary request of Western Christians: help "restore morality" to their country. For approximately ten years, Russia experienced an unprecedented openness to spiritual matters, with missionaries flooding...2025-05-1635 min
evangelical 360°Ep. 29 / From Religious Trauma to Spiritual Liberation ► Philip Yancey (Part 1)Philip Yancey opens his heart and shares the painful journey that shaped his spiritual life in this riveting conversation about his memoir "When the Light Fell." With unflinching honesty, he recounts growing up in a fundamentalist community that opposed movies, bowling alleys, roller skating—and openly preached racism from the pulpit during the civil rights era.The raw vulnerability of Yancey's story emerges as he describes his father's death from polio after being removed from an iron lung against medical advice, based on misguided faith expectations. This tragedy left his mother a struggling widow who placed enormous sp...2025-05-0935 min
Good Hard Story PodcastEpisode 98: Receiving the Gift You Didn't Want with Philip Yancey“Hope is believing in advance what can only be understood in reverse.”These words have been the rally cry of my soul for over a decade now, but I didn’t come up with them myself. Philip Yancey did. This gentle, thoughtful writer has spent his career exploring the topic of suffering which, as you can imagine, has meant so much to me. Today I have the honor of sitting down with Philip to talk about some things that we can’t understand today, but trust we’ll understand some day. (Like his recent Parkinson’s diagnosis.)This ho...2025-05-081h 00
Joni and Friends Ministry PodcastWhy Doesn’t God Remove Our Pain? A Conversation with Philip YanceyPhilip Yancey, a renowned author and avid investigator of the mysteries of the Christian faith, joins Crystal Keating for a deep and honest conversation you won’t want to miss. No stranger to wrestling with doubt and suffering, Philip often writes about encountering God in our pain. In this episode he shares about his latest book and opens up about his own recent hardships, including diagnoses of Parkinson’s disease and cancer. He points to the life-giving truth while God may not remove our suffering, he is always faithful to redeem it.Philip Yancey is a best-selling auth...2024-08-2243 min
Trinity Forum ConversationsLife, Death, Poetry & Peace with Philip YanceyLife, Death, Poetry & Peace with Philip YanceyLife has changed dramatically in the 400 years since John Donne wrote his Devotions. Yet despite the advances of the intervening centuries, we find that, like Donne, we are still subject to sickness and death. We still long for comfort. We still want to know what God is saying to us.Author Philip Yancey has found surprisingly relevant answers to these perennial questions in the works of John Donne. Updating the great poet’s work for modern readers in his book UNDONE: A Mo...2024-07-2330 min
The Beached White Male Podcast with Ken KempS5E36 Philip Yancey - What’s (still) So Amazing About Grace?Send us a textIn 1997, when Philip Yancey submitted his manuscript to his publisher, he had serious doubts that his new offering (which followed his popular book, The Jesus I Never Knew) would find an audience. He knew his evangelical readers. In Yancey’s mind, the chapters on a Democrat President (Bill Clinton) and a fellow author who “came out” as gay (Mel White), would not set well - especially when he called for “grace.” To his surprise, What’s So Amazing About Grace became his best-seller. Today, 25 years later, Philip and his publishers agree. The need to apprehend...2024-06-151h 00
No Small Endeavor with Lee C. CampUnabridged Interview: Philip Yancey
This is our unabridged interview with Philip Yancey.
What do we do with the painful parts of our life story?
Anybody familiar with Philip Yancey’s work knows that it has cost him more than time to be a bestselling author and journalist. It has cost him a lifetime of pain, loss, and deep spiritual struggle.
Philip intentionally waited until recently to write down his story to protect some of the people in it, but now in his seventies, he’s released “Where the Light Fell,” his memoir that shares all the messy details...2024-03-261h 10
No Small Endeavor with Lee C. CampPhilip Yancey: Where the Light Fell
What do we do with the painful parts of our life story?
Anybody familiar with Philip Yancey’s work knows that it has cost him more than time to be a bestselling author and journalist. It has cost him a lifetime of pain, loss, and deep spiritual struggle.
Philip intentionally waited until recently to write down his story to protect some of the people in it, but now in his seventies, he’s released “Where the Light Fell,” his memoir that shares all the messy details about growing and beyond - losing his father, childhood poverty...2024-03-2154 min
The Living Church PodcastPhilip Yancey on John Donne, UndoneFollow Philip Yancey's blog.Read Philip's new book, Undone.No man is an island,Entire of itself.Each is a piece of the continent,A part of the main.If a clod be washed away by the sea,Europe is the less.As well as if a promontory were.As well as if a manor of thine ownOr of thine friend's were.Each man's death diminishes me,For I am involved in mankind.2024-03-2141 min
Moms in Prayer PodcastEpisode 287 - Grace is Greater with Philip Yancey“Grace has nothing to do with worthiness. Grace does not depend on what we have done for God, but rather what God has done for us.” Award-winning author, renowned theologian, and influential speaker, Philip Yancey, reminds us of God’s amazing grace that is so personal and lavish. And it isn’t for us to keep for ourselves! Listen in as Philip shares how the grace we show points others to God and how we can extend it to those in need. The Moms in Prayer Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find pra...2023-12-1136 min
Embrace The Eye-Opening Full Audiobook Now, Thriller Fans!Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions by Philip YanceyPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/724329to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions
Author: Philip Yancey
Narrator: Philip Yancey, Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Release date: November 28, 2023
Genres: World Religions
Publisher's Summary:
As the world entered the long night of 2020, Philip Yancey turned to John Donne's Devotions, a nearly 400-year-old manuscript, for guidance. In it, he found a trustworthy companion for living through a global pandemic--or any other crisis. As Yancey says, "Nothing had prepared me for Donne's raw account of confrontations with God." By faithfully and poetically rendering Donne's 17th...2023-11-284h 17Get Lost In Your Day With A Addictive Full Audiobook.Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions by Philip YanceyPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/724329to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions
Author: Philip Yancey
Narrator: Philip Yancey, Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Release date: November 28, 2023
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
As the world entered the long night of 2020, Philip Yancey turned to John Donne's Devotions, a nearly 400-year-old manuscript, for guidance. In it, he found a trustworthy companion for living through a global pandemic--or any other crisis. As Yancey says, "Nothing had prepared me for Donne's raw account of confrontations with God." By faithfully and poetically rendering Donne's 17th century...2023-11-284h 17