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The Question That Never Goes Away | What is God up to in a world of such tragedy and pain?
The long-awaited follow-up to the bestselling Where Is God When It Hurts?
Author / Philip Yancey
ISBN / 9789674160289
Publisher / PVM Harvest Resources by special arrangement with and permission of Hodder & Stoughton
Publication Date / 2013
Format / Paperback
Language / English
Number of Pages / 160
Measurement / 19.8 x 12.8 x 0.9 cm
Weight / 200 g
Author Description
Philip Yancey is loved throughout the world for his honest, insightful and inspirational writing. Over the past three decades, he has written more than twenty books, including What's So Amazing About Grace?, The Jesus I Never Knew, Finding God in Unexpected Places and Prayer, selling over eight million copies worldwide.
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Some days, the news seems too much to bear.
Yet another tsunami or earthquake or flood or fire or war atrocity. One more gun-toting madman stalking young people in idyllic Norway or moviegoers in Colorado or schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut. We turn off the news only to get a phone call about expectant parents with a stillborn baby, or a loved one whose cancer has returned.
Really, God? we ask. This again?
If we have faith in God, it gets shaken to the core. What was God doing in the moment when that tragedy could have been prevented? If we can't trust God to keep our children safe or loved ones from dying in agony, what can we trust God for?
In his classic book Where Is God When It Hurts?, Philip Yancey gave us permission to doubt, reasons not to abandon faith, and practical ways to reach out to hurting people.
And now, thirty years after writing his first book, Yancey revisits our cry of "Why, God" in three places stunned into silence by the calamities that have devastated them.
His visits to three particularly traumatised places in 2012 raised the old problems with new urgency; with new perspectives and stories gathered across nearly thirty-five years, once again he tackles the hard questions head-on.
Coming to the problem as a veteran pilgrim, Yancey faces the issues that often undermine faith with his trademark honesty, yet finds comfort and hope along the way. Most of all, he shows that Christians have an important role to play in bringing healing to a deeply wounded world, and discovers that there are good reasons to ask, once again, The Question That Never Goes Away: Where is God when we suffer? And Yancey, once again, leads us to find faith when it is most severely put to the test.