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He suffered great loss as a child and young adult and now enjoys the "wastefulness of grace" with his family in the Pacific Northwest. Email Us. Find More New Items. Hours Our building is currently open for pick-up of materials , 45 minute computer sessions, and browsing of materials.

Contact Us S. Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Rate this book. The Shack William Paul Young. Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.

Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. 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?

You'll want everyone you know to read this book! Fiction Christian Christian Fiction Religion More Details. William Paul Young 19 books 2, followers. Paul Young is a Canadian author.

Young was the oldest of four. He spend the majority of his first decade with his missionary parents in the highlands of Netherlands New Guinea West Papua , among the Dani, a tribal people. When he was six he was sent to a boarding school.

The manuscript, that later became The Shack , was intended only for his six kids and for a handful of close friends. After multiple rejections by publishers, Young and his friends published the book under the name of their newly created publishing company. The Shack was one of the top-selling fiction books of and will be a major motion picture in Spring Young lives in Happy Valley, Oregon with his wife and has six children and several grandchildren.

Search review text. I know, I know. Everyone loves this book. No fewer than forty-three people asked me "Have you read The Shack yet? It changed my life! I was full of questions, and life stunk, and then I read the book, and God made sense to me, I understood quantum physics effortlessly, and all of a sudden I could spin flax into gold!

The Shack appears to me to be an ex-hippie's best attempt at amalgamating God, Dr. Phil, and Oprah. The writing is bad, the story is cheesy, the format is formulaic and cliche, and the theology is spotty and poorly explained at best, and downright heretical at worst. I was not impressed. If it makes a lot of people think hard thoughts about God that they'd rather avoid, then I suppose that's fine. I'm just not sure hard thinking should be done at the expense of clear thinking.

And I'm certain bad writing is no way to advance good theology even if this were. Having had such high hopes for this book, I was sadly disappointed about its content, being for the most part simply unbiblical. Yes, there were poignant scenes and emotional moments that moved me to tears- but that does not tip the scales against all of the errors slipped in and truths that were twisted. Being protective especially of new Christians, I strongly caution anyone about reading it. This book should be read with much discernment.

Please read the Bible and learn about the Way, the Truth, and the Life! There is nothing good about this book that the Lord can't teach you without it. I'd like to write a more thorough review when I have time. I've meant to come back to this review, especially since the movie came out, but I haven't had the time or energy.

Nothing is impossible with Him! Years ago, He used the first few chapters of a book to remind me of His love for me and bring me back to Him. I stopped reading it once I realized it was a prosperity gospel book, but it had served its purpose. I wouldn't recommend reading that book to anyone, and I don't recommend anyone read this book either. Because it preaches yes, preaches a different gospel and does not line up with the Word of God.

A close family member of mine was one of the first people to read this book. She and the author talked back and forth at length about the theology of it.

He wrote it to share his views and theology with his children and it got around and became a book. My family member gave it to our whole family and told us what a life-changing book it had been for her.

She highlighted it and scribbled in the margins like a Bible. This was a pivotal and instrumental book in her life. I'll just say I have seen what the fruit of Universalism is. Live like hell and go to heaven, even "murderers are God's children", it was all forgiven at the cross--without repentance.

This book has led many away from the true Gospel. So many are aching to know God. God is love. But God is also righteous, just, and holy. Universalism is not the Good News.

The Good News is that God loved the world so much He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to take the sin of the world upon Himself and sacrifice His perfect, sinless life and body for us to make atonement for our sins and rescue us from the penalty of sin, hell--but we must believe in Him, choose Him, repent of our sins, and submit to His loving authority. You are witnesses of these things. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

He was God in the flesh, not a mere clumsy human. I cannot go into all of the errors in this book today. I don't have the time. It reminded me of when Jesus was tempted in the desert and satan twisted scripture at every turn.

Jesus, as the Word of God, was more than able to contradict the enemy's lies and silence him with scripture. In response to why I delete some comments Way back when I opened my private Goodreads account, I thought my reviews were only for my private Goodreads friends.

Amazon only had two negative reviews of this book at the time I read it before it really took off so I figured I'd put this out there for my close friends. I was taken aback when people started posting on my review People who didn't know me in real life. The hilarity of calling me of all people judgmental and bigoted would have made me laugh if it hadn't make me so mad. Some members would friend me only to send me awful messages and I had to request Goodreads to block one particularly vicious member.

So yes, if someone is condescending or rude, I delete their comment. If they are so off-the-wall, I don't have time to reply, I delete their comment. Frankly, I find venomous comments ironic considering what the book teaches.

They can spew hate on their own review. Thankfully, I have the authority to delete comments on mine. If you want to post about how your religious degrees and pedigrees or experiences give you the right to belittle me or "people like" me, do it on your own review. None of that will change my "narrow" mind. God has given me peace and discernment about this book. I have four kids and little time or patience for anonymous disrespect and online arguments.

I understand how attached we become to our books--especially the ones special to our hearts. I can see how this would be that special book to some. However, I stand by my original review. God bless you all and guide you to Himself. Pure drivel. Yes, I said pancakes…. The lesson of power of forgiveness was demonstrated well, but no better than the Hallmark card I bought my boss when I spilled a whole bottle of red wine on his new suit…..

Amanda J. I was recommended this book by several people who found it both moving and fresh. In the last photo the miniature Collie was dwarfed by two huge black Retrievers. The caption: "Don't forget, they grow up. Is it possible to craft a space for community and conversation free of the divisiveness of politics or religion or ideology Subscribe and let's find out. God is Spirit and has no gender, even though the Bible often uses the pronoun "He" for God and describes him as a Father-figure.

Young offers a detailed explanation of this in the book. The problem is that the author is attempting to describe the indescribable. How should one depict The Trinity? Where would one even begin to describe a God that is three in one?

God relates to us in the ways that we will best be able to hear Him. Wayne Jacobsen, an author who consulted on the writing of the novel and formed the company that would later publish it, wrote a blog last year to answer some of the accusations from critics of The Shack.

He assures readers that the team of writers who helped shape the story are all committed Christians and that they strived to keep the ideas presented in the book true to Scripture.

They are reworded in ways to be relevant to those reading the story, but at every point we sought to be true to the way God has revealed himself in the Bible except for the literary characterizations that move the story forward. At its core the book is one long Bible study as Mack seeks to resolve his anger at God. Instead, he appears as a man who lends incredible strength and guidance as Mack completes the hardest part of his emotional journey.

Young does an incredible job of capturing an air of mystery in this character. But strangely, he still had a difficult time focusing on her; she seemed almost to shimmer in the light and her hair blew in all directions even though there was hardly a breeze.

It was almost easier to see her out of the corner of his eye than it was to look at her directly. This characterization, too, has raised red flags for some critics.