I quickly devoured it keeping an eye out for any ‘heretical’ teachings. Some embraced the story as a creative depiction of how God works in our lives, while others dismissed it as “heresy”.Īll of the debate piqued my interest, so I was very excited when I received the book as a Christmas present. Everyone, it seemed, had a strong opinion to offer about the book. Young has six children and eight grandchildren.When the novel, The Shack, was released by author William Paul Young it created quite a controversy. In 2015, Young lived in Happy Valley, Oregon with his wife. One critic, Tim Challies, says Young is a universalist, teaching that everyone is saved. Like The Shack, it has been the subject of theological criticism. Young's latest book, Lies We Believe About God, released March 7, 2017. Young's Eve was released on Septemby Howard Books. Young's second book, Cross Roads, was published on Novemby FaithWords. 'The Shack' was the top-selling fiction and audio book of 2008 in America through November 30. The company spent only C$200 in advertising word-of-mouth referrals eventually drove the book to number one on the New York Times trade paperback fiction best-seller list in June 2008.

After rejection by 26 publishers, Young and his friends published the book under the name of their newly created publishing company, Windblown Media, in 2007. Two of his close friends encouraged him to have it published, and assisted with some editing and rewriting in order to prepare the manuscript for publication. Young initially printed just 15 copies of his book. The resulting manuscript, which later became The Shack, was intended only for his six kids and for a handful of close friends. Young originally wrote primarily as a way to create unique gifts for his friends, until his wife repeatedly urged him to write something for their six children in order to put down in one place his perspectives on God and on the inner healing Young had experienced as an adult. When he was six he was sent to a boarding school. These became his family and as the first white child and outsider who ever spoke their language, he was granted unusual access into their culture and community. Young is the oldest of four, born May 11, 1955, in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, but the majority of his first decade was lived with his missionary parents in the highlands of Netherlands New Guinea ( West Papua), among the Dani, a central highlands people of western New Guinea. He wrote the novels The Shack, Cross Roads, Eve, and the religious book Lies We Believe About God. Paul Young or simply Paul Young, is a Canadian author. William Paul Young (born May 11, 1955), referred to as Wm.

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