Philip Yancey

'What Good is God' is an extraordinary journey that author Philip Yancey has taken us on, in travelling to six different countries that have suffered severe trauma. But this isn't just about other people and how they cope in in such severe circumstances, but about Philip's own journey and how he feels about the situation. It is about how following the Word of Jesus Christ and how is changes us personally to do better in life, and how we see how other people have changed and then they become an example to us - it is also about Grace. But the biggest surprise to me was how much C.S. ..read more

I first came across Philip Yancey way back in in 2001 when Archie Coates the curate at my local church gave me a copy of What's So Amazing about Grace - I'd decided at the time to give Christianity another go. I wish I'd had a book like Prayer to read - in this version Philip Yancey talks in the foreword about the effect prayer had on his recovery from serious brain and neck injuries he got from a car crash in 2006.