Who is wm paul young

You have to take risks and learn how to trust. I stopped trying to please God and everybody and began a journey of learning how to trust. Let's talk about "The Shack. The Shack was written out of healing, not as a part of it. It was an expression of healing. I don't think I could have written prior to that. I've always been a writer, but I never had a clue that anyone outside the circle who already loved me would care about it.

Kim had been asking me to write something that put in one place how I thought, because I thought outside the box. Neither of us were thinking it would be a book. I had 40 minutes on the MAX to one of my three jobs, and it gave me time to think about what I'd want to say to my children if the questions of life threw a major curveball. The loss between Mack and Missy in the book was the loss between me and the child within me. I made 15 copies at Office Depot in Gresham, gave them to my kids, Kim and friends and went back to work.

Those 15 copies accomplished everything I ever wanted the book to do. To me, everything that has spun out of it is God's great sense of humor. In the book, three people portray the trinity. Why did you choose to represent God that way? God the father was easy.

God the father in her was the God I've experienced in my life, not the God I grew up with. I knew these large African-American women who get in your face and tell you the truth because they love you. Jesus got to be himself. The spirit throughout the Hebrew scriptures is feminine, so I played with that. Most of my damage came from men, and God in strictly paternal language was almost impossible to access without the connection to abuse, damage and hurt.

The dominating, destructive, masculine persona of God was inhibitive. I tampered with my people's paradigm. But overwhelmingly, people instantly got it. They knew I wasn't trying to define God. You said you made 15 copies of the book and that was that.

How did it go on to be published and become a bestseller? My friends kept giving it away. To enjoy our website, you'll need to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Please click here to learn how. William Paul Young, the author behind bestseller The Shack , later turned into a movie in , says he doesn't believe that those who die without knowing Jesus Christ cannot achieve salvation.

In the middle of a school year, my family unexpectedly returned to the West. My father worked as a Pastor for a number of small churches in Western Canada and by the time I graduated, I had already attended thirteen different schools. I paid my way through Bible College working as a radio disc jockey, lifeguard and even a stint in the oil fields of northern Alberta.

I spent one summer in the Philippines and another touring with a drama troupe before working in Washington D. The following year, I met and married Kim Warren and for a time worked on staff at a large suburban church while attending seminary. Elizabeth Byler Younts Goodreads Author ,. Rebecca Kanner Goodreads Author. Baxter Kruger. Jackie Hill Perry ,. Dan B. Related News. Interview with Wm. Paul Young. A source of inspiration and controversy, his first novel, The Shack, was a Christian fiction phenomenon.

Now Young revisits the Garden of Eden in Read more Quotes by William Paul Young. It is about letting go of another person's throat Forgiveness does not create a relationship.