William P. Young

BIO

William P. Young (Paul) was born a Canadian and along with three
younger siblings was raised among a stone-age tribe by his
missionary parents in the highlands of what was New Guinea (West
Papua). The family returned to Canada where his father pastured a
number of churches for various denominations. By the time he
entered Canadian Bible College, Paul had attended a dozen schools.
He completed his undergraduate degree in religion at Warner Pacific
College in Portland, Oregon.

While in Oregon, Paul attended seminary and met and married Kim.
Together they celebrate “the wastefulness of grace”
with their six children, two daughters-in-law, and now two
grandchildren.

In his Web site biography (windrumors.com), Paul writes,
“These are some of the facts of my life, but they don’t
begin to tell the real story. The journey has been both incredible
and unbearable, a desperate grasping after grace and wholeness.
Facts cannot tell you about the pain of trying to adjust to
different cultures; of life losses that were almost too staggering
to bear; of walking down railroad tracks at night in the middle of
winter, screaming into a windstorm; of living with an underlying
volume of shame so deep and loud that it constantly threatened any
sense of sanity; of dreams not only destroyed but obliterated by
personal failure; of hope so tenuous that only the trigger seemed
to offer a solution. These few facts also do not speak to the
potency of love and forgiveness, the arduous road of
reconciliation, the surprises of grace and community, of
transformational healing and the unexpected emergence of
joy."

Books by William P. Young

The Shack

by William P. Young - Christian, Fiction