Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey is a Christian author. Fourteen million of his books have been sold worldwide, making him one of the best-selling evangelical Christian authors.[citation needed] Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996 and What's So Amazing About Grace in 1998. [1] He is published by Zondervan Publishing.

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Philip Yancey was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1949. [2] Yancey's father died when Philip was one year old after his church elders suggested he go off life support in faith that God would heal him. [3] In his adolescence, Yancey attended two fundamentalist churches that were strongly racist. [4] After high school he attended Columbia Bible college, where he met his wife Janet. [5] Yancey moved to Chicago and joined the staff of Campus Life Magazine in 1971 where he served as Editor for eight years. [6] Yancey graduated Magna Cum Laude from Columbia Bible College and earned his M.A. with highest honors from the graduate school of Wheaton College. His two graduate degrees in Communications and English were earned from Wheaton College Graduate School and the University of Chicago.

Yancey was for many years an editor for Christianity Today magazine and wrote articles for Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Publisher's Weekly, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Eternity, Moody Monthly, and National Wildlife, among others. He now lives in Colorado, working as a columnist and editor-at-large. He forms part of the editorial board for Books & Culture magazine and travels around the world in his speaking engagements.

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  1. ^ ECPA. Retrieved on February 16, 2007.
  2. ^ Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church by Yancey, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001, p 12.
  3. ^ Philip Yancey's Life. Retrieved on March 6, 2006.
  4. ^ Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church by Yancey, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001, pp 21-22.
  5. ^ Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church by Yancey, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001, pp 2, 45.
  6. ^ Soul Survivor - Philip Yancey - "About the Author". Random House. Retrieved on March 6, 2006.

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