Assisted by Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings in the process of editing and rewriting, Young attempted many times to find a commercial publisher before the group decided to form their own company, Windblown Media, and publish the book themselves. The earliest version of The Shack was one of these stories, but some of its readers encouraged him to publish the manuscript. Having settled in the United States as an adult, Young began writing stories for his children and friends. Young is the son of Christian missionaries who worked in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, and he grew up alternately amid the Dani ethnic group and in missionary boarding schools before the family moved back to Canada. He is also the author of The Shack, Cross Roads, and Eve.The Shack is a novel by Canadian author William P. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult and now enjoys the wastefulness of grace with his family in the Pacific Northwest. Paul Young was born a Canadian and raised among a Stone Age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of former New Guinea. It's that good!' Eugene Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, B.C.Ībout The Author Wm. This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress did for his. Review Quotes 'When the imagination of a writer and the passion of a theologian cross-fefertilize the result is a novel on the order of The Shack. What he finds there will change his life forever. Against his better judgment, he arrives on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare.

Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note that's supposedly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant, 'The Shack' wrestles with the timeless question, 'Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?' Windblown Mediaīook Synopsis After his daughter's murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions - and finds unexpected answers - in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller.

About the Book A grieving father receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him to meet in the Oregon wilderness where his daughter has been abducted and murdered.

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