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My last book, Soul Survivor, had the subtitle "How my Faith Survived the Church." I got one letter from a pastor who said, "Philip, I get so tired of you criticizing the church that I feel like writing a book called HOW MY CHURCH SURVIVED YOUR FAITH! You''re right. I have been open about problems with the institutional church. I grew up in a toxic, almost cultic church, and I hear daily from readers who are "in recovery" from such churches. The year I began writing Rumors of Another World, however, I took four separate trips to Europe, which has a very different religious scene. In countries like Czech Republic and Denmark, as few as two percent of the population ever goes to church. Conversations with such people kept echoing in my mind as I wrote. My concerns broadened from "How do I ferret out the truth of Christian faith from the overlay the church puts on it?" to "Does the Christian view of the world make any sense?" -- Philip Yancey
In matters of faith, many people occupy the borderlands. Some give church and Christians a wide berth, yet still linger in the borderlands because they cannot set aside the feeling that there must be a spiritual reality out there. Others find it difficult to articulate why they believe as they do. Perhaps they absorbed faith as part of their upbringing, or perhaps they simply find church an uplifting place to visit on weekends. But if asked to explain their faith to an atheist, they would not know what to say. -- Philip Yancey
The success of J R R Tolkein''s Lord of the Rings triolgy, Philip Pulman''s Dark Matter trilogy, books like The Tomb of God and The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls, the growing interest in New Age philosophy, show there is a deep human yearning, in all matters spiritual. Maybe it is the age old yearning for a good yarn which has been handed down from oral traditions giving us the Icelandic, and Nordic and Celtic sagas. Maybe it is post-millennium blues.
It is not only in the spiritual realm. It is true in the social realm too. Another World is Possible, is the cry from across the world as people take control of their own lives, their environment, and organise at grass-roots level. The world is too important to be left to politicians whose own interest is self-interest, whose snouts are so deeply embedded in the trough they cannot see the world around them, let alone understand what is going on.
But man cannot live by bread alone, he also needs a spiritual dimension.
Philip Yancey almost lost his faith, driven away by the Church and its lack of grace. He regained his faith, not from the Church, or from Christian teachings, although the Bible did help, but from the writings of some of the greats of literature, people like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, who have an intrinsic understanding of the human condition.
Rumors of Another World is Yancey''s attempt to move on from toxic churches and abusive religion.

I admit that I am at times a reluctant Christian, plagued by doubts and ''in recovery'' from bad church encounters. I have explored these experiences in other books, and so I determined not to mine my past yet again in this one. I am fully aware of all the reasons not to believe. Yet Rumors is my attempt to discover for myself why I do believe."
Yancey writes books for himself, a personal odyssey, but at the same time he has an uncanny knack of asking the same questions that bothers all of us, and at the same time, sometimes providing some answers.

I write books for myself. I write books to resolve things that are bothering me, things I don''t have answers to. My books are a process of exploration and investigation. So, I tend to tackle different problems related to faith, things of concern to me, things I wonder about and worry about.
Yancey reconises there are a lot of people, maybe the vast majority, who occupy a nether region, he calls it the borderlandhurch, but not outside faith. People whose needs need addressing, but who have fallen by the wayside, administered to by no-one, left to wonder in a spiritual wilderness. It is to these people he tries to address with Rumours of Another World.

Borderlands are in-between places, such as the "no-man''s land" between countries that dispute territory. In matters of faith, people enter the borderlands from two different directions. Some, like me, flee an unhealthy church experience yet still believe in an unseen reality worth pursuing. Others find church an alien experience: everyone else knows when to stand up or sit down and what to sing, but to an outsider it may seem foreign and off-putting. Even so, almost all people have a religious sense at various times. Many describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious." I call such people "borderlanders."
Man can dissect, but can he appreciate the whole? A master of trivia and lacking any understanding of the profound.
What we disparagingly refer to as ''primitive man'' had a far better understanding of the sacred than so-called ''modern man''. In our quest for modernity and rationality, we have lost something along the way.
For far too long the Church has withdrawn from the natural world and all its beauty, and seen suffering as akin to holiness. This is seen at it most perverse in the Catholic sect Opus Dei, where gratuitous self-inflicted pain is celebrated as good, bringing the victim closer to God.
When we see a beautiful flower, a painting, listen to music, we get a hint of another world, that another, better world, is possible.
Thomas Merton acquired his faith through art, Simone Weil throu
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