Page 176 of the unfolding is the story of Philip Yancey.

My father died because people around him believed they knew God's will, and they didn't.

And I learned early on that some people who claim to speak for God don't.

So I did just kind of put all of faith aside and just was not sure what I believed.

God's story has been unfolding.

Since the beginning of time.

He invites you to be a part of it.

Another page in the unfolding.

Hi, this is Meredith Foster.

Philip Yancey is a best-selling author, the writer of Christian classics like The Jesus I Never

New and What's So Amazing About Grace? After more than 40 years and 17 million books in print,

Philip says much of his writing is about suffering and grace, two things that he has experienced

in great measure. Growing up in a strict fundamentalist church,

Philip learned to think of God as a giant who was just waiting for a chance to crush him.

His widowed mother presented much the same picture of God and reinforced it with her own anger

and disappointment. As Philip grew, he began to see the contradictions in what his church taught, speaking about love and

grace, but rarely giving either, especially when it came to people of different races. He realized

that much of what he'd been taught was a lie. And if these things were a lie, maybe Jesus was a lie too.

You know, Meredith, once I was asked to speak at a university,

and they wanted my title, like two years in advance, and I don't do anything two years in

advance. I don't know what I'm going to be interested in two years from now. So I said,

I can't do that. And they said, well, just come up with some kind of generic title, and then we can deal with it later.

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