Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey, born in Atlanta in 1949 and educated at the University of Chicago, interests me because he built a vast readership by leaning into the hard questions rather than away from them. More than fifteen million English-language copies and translations into forty languages did not come from easy answers; they came from wrestling openly with faith, doubt and suffering. As a Christian author he could have settled for comfortable certainty, yet his journalist's instinct seems to push him toward honesty and toward thinking alongside the reader. I have a soft spot for writers who produce quiet, durable books that people return to over decades, and he is plainly one of them.

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Name (English)

Philip Yancey

Name (Japanese)

フィリップ・ヤンシー

Reading

ふぃりっぷ・やんしー

Born

November 4, 1949 (age 77)

Origin

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Occupation

journalist / writer / publisher / editor / author

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Ox

University

University of Chicago

• Official sitehttps://philipyancey.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Yancey
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552966

Tags

• Georgia
• journalist
• writer
• publisher

Last updated

November 4, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.