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. Most of the story I am very familiar with having been raised in Church, I understand the story of the Bible and what you expect the stories most everybody hears īut that line and that scene just really, I think, shows the power of forgiveness and how it is not like something we do every day.William Paul Young (born May 11, 1955), referred to as Wm. I have to say one of most touching, the part that brought me to tears the most, was seeing Mackenzie hold his daughter and say, “Forgive me.” It wasn’t until my friends started giving it away that any conversation came up about publishing and then the movie.Īnd then it came about and what a beautiful story it was. And then I made 15 copies at Christmas for my kids and 6 of them went to them and Kim got a copy and the rest of my friends and I went back to work.
This weekend represents 11 years for me of deconstruction and reconstruction of my own heart, the broken place on the inside. “Something that puts in one place how you think because you think outside of the box.” And I’ve taken 50 years of history and 50 years of questions and losses and working through my own shack, you know, the broken places where I got stuck and I am trying to wrap it inside this story about Mackenzie. William Paul Young: It was the year I turned 50 and Kim, my wife, had been asking me for almost four years, “Someday, as a gift for our kids, would you write something?” Because I had written stuff and given to friends and family. Was there a particular moment or part in your life that made you want to write this book?
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