Philip Yancey

Yancey was born in Atlanta[3] and grew up in nearby suburbs.[4] When he was one year old, his father, stricken with polio, died after church members suggested he go off life support in faith that God would heal him. This and other negative experiences with a rigid, conservative, fundamentalist church background contributed to Yancey's losing his faith at one point and deeply questioning the established church at other times.[5][6] After high school he attended Columbia Bible College in South Carolina, where he met his wife, Janet.[7] He went on to earn graduate degrees in communications and English from Wheaton College Graduate School and the University of Chicago.