“Christianity Today” published a sermon given by author Philip Yancey on the Virginia Tech campus. He spoke to the group of studetns just two weeks after the shootings in Blacksburg. Yancey is one of those writers who is complete unable to give cliché answers to though questions. In fact, one friend of mine recently told me that the only thing he doesn’t like about Yancey’s books was that he doesn’t offer solutions quick enough. Personally, I appreciate this. It’s all too easy to set up a “straw-man” caricature of what you’re trying to speak against and then easily knock it down. However, issues like pain and suffering cannot be treated so tritely. And so I always appreciate how Yancey is willing to go to the center of the problem of pain. He takes no shortcuts.
I’ve attached a link to the transcript of Philip Yancey’s sermon to the Virginia Tech students. Please let me know what you think about what he says (click “comment” above).