Philip Yancey, whose explorations of faith have made him a guide for millions of readers, feels no need to defend the church. 'When someone tells me yet another horror story about the church, I respond, 'Oh, it's even worse than that. Let me tell you my story.' I have spent most of my life in recovery from the church.'
How did Yancey manage to survive spiritually despite early encounters with a racist, legalistic church that he now views as almost cultic? In this, his most soul-searching book yet, he probes that very question. Not only telling the story of his own struggle to reclaim belief, Yancey also provides glimpses of the faith journeys of notable people who've modeled for him a life-enhancing rather than a life-constricting faith. These inspiring examples range from the scatterbrained journalist G. K. Chesterton to the tortured novelists Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, to contemporaries such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Annie Dillard.
