The Shack by William P. Young
Book description
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. 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?” The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. Published in 2007, 249 pages.
Description from book jacket.
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Discussion questions
The Shack discussion questions from LitLovers.com
Book club discussion questions for The Shack from About.com
Additional information
Reactions to The Shack from a number of Christian theologians and leaders—from Andy Rowell’s Church Leadership Conversations webpage.
Windrumors, William Paul Young’s official website
TheShackBook.com –the book’s official website
Interview with William P. Young from TitleTrakk.com
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