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I'm Keith Simon. I'm Tanya Wilmouth.

And I'm Tanya Wilmaith and I'm Patrick Miller.

Philip Yancey is one of my favorite authors and he's recently written a memoir where he tells his life story of growing up in southern fundamentalism. When you hear his story

you're going to be very surprised that he is walking with God at all today.

He's a guy who should have deconstructed his faith. He should have walked away. He should be known as an ex- Evangelical, but he's not. He stayed with Jesus and his story has a lot to teach us. So stick with me here with

Philippiancy. His memoir is Where the Light Fell. We get into all kinds of good

stuff. Here we go, Philippianci.

Philippianci, welcome to 10 Minute Bible Talks. Thank you very much, Keith.

I absolutely love your writing.

You've written a lot of books. I won't say that I've read them all, maybe not even half of them, but all the ones that I've read have come at really important times in my life.

How many books have you written now?

About 25, so roughly two dozen.

And are you proud of all of them still,

or do you have any that you look back on and think man I wouldn't have

necessarily written that at this point in my life? I don't really go back and read

them a couple of them I've revised over the years.

I don't think I've changed my basic approach.

I might add this little phrase, I might say,

but I could be wrong more often. Because when're young it's easy to seize on something and say this is the way it is and when you get a little older you realize hmm I could be wrong I be wrong. And it's helpful to add that so that the reader can make up their own mind.

Well, I just love that about you, is that you always come across as someone who is humble and open to another perspective.

And I think that modeled something good for me in my Christian life because I have a tendency

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