No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp
Society & Culture
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 about growing and beyond - losing his father, childhood poverty, parental abuse, ruinous fundamentalist Christianity, militant atheism, a nearly fatal car accident, and more.
In this episode he shares how he managed to come to new understanding in the face of suffering. “A writer really only has one gift,” says Philip Yancey, “and that's the gift of his or her own life.”
Show Notes
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Resources mentioned this episode:
Where the Light Fell by Philip Yancey
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Soul Survivor by Philip Yancey
PDF of Lee’s Interview Notes
Transcript for Abridged Episode
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