Talk:William P. Young

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Personal Life[edit]

I am concerned about cherrypicking in this entry. Did not have time to research everything.

In an interview with World Magazine's Susan Olasky, Young, who is no longer a member of a church, said "(The institutional church) doesn't work for those of us who are hurt and those of us who are damaged. . . . If God is a loving God and there's grace in this world and it doesn't work for those of us who didn't get dealt a very good hand in the deck, then why are we doing this? . . . Legalism within Christian or religious circles doesn't work very well for people who are good at it. And I wasn't very good at it."^[1]

An article in Maclean's magazine in August 2008 indicated that Young, is a "Canadian raised from birth by his missionary parents in Dutch New Guinea, Young was sexually abused by some of the people his parents preached to, as he was again back home, at a Christian boarding school. Young drifted through life as an adult, buoyed a little by his faith and a lot by his wife, Kim, keeping his secrets and building his shack: 'the place we make to hide all our crap,' he calls it. Until, at 38, he found himself at the nadir. 'I had a three-month affair with one of my wife's best friends. That was it, that just blew my careful little religious world apart. I either had to get on my knees and deal with my wife's pain and anger or kill myself."^[2]

Basileias (talk) 13:06, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've had a bit of a look through the quotes - they seem well supported and representative to me. What is it about them that makes them look like cherry picking? (You missed the other quote, which I've inserted above so it doesn't get lost) peterl (talk) 05:41, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you looked like you claimed you did, you would see the article titled "A God Who Looks Like Aunt Jemima" is not there. I am not sure it even ever existed. That title is a bigoted title. It is either fake or the article was removed. Also quoting World Magazine does not even come close to a neutral unbiased source and I believe runs afoul of Biographies of living persons and Neutral point of view. Basileias (talk) 13:41, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Yes, I did look. Please refrain from personal attacks.

Regarding the Macleans article: the article clearly did exist: it's referenced at many places as shown by https://www.google.com.au/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=PGEtVKTxLZCJ8AXp04E4&gws_rd=ssl#q=+%22A+God+Who+Looks+Like+Aunt+Jemima%22.+Macleans.+ and direct links including https://www.zotero.org/jmac62/items/itemKey/CCMT6HUH?fullsite=1 and the last page of https://digital.library.txstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10877/4477/LemonsElizabeth.pdf?sequence=1 , and can be found in full at http://web.archive.org/web/20120212230719/http://www.macleans.ca/culture/media/article.jsp?content=20080820_51506_51506

Regarding the World Magazine article: I'm not sure why you linked to #Privacy_of_personal_information_and_using_primary_sources ; that doesn't seem relevant to me. Do you have a wikipedia reference as to why World Magazine can't be used as a reference, as the article seems directly relevant to me?

peterl (talk) 14:58, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Here, and the reasons here and here and here. If you still have concerns, I have no issue with this going through a BLP review. Basileias (talk) 04:40, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Olasky, Susan (2008-06-28). "Commuter-driven Bestseller". World Magazine. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
^ "A God Who Looks Like Aunt Jemima". Macleans. 2008-08-20. Retrieved 2009-05-14.

Occupation?[edit]

What occupation did William P. Young have before publishing his first book? --Turan MUC (talk) 11:25, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Shack, the book vs the movie[edit]

I loved the book, but thought the movie, was a sale out for money! So Disappointed! 2600:8800:221C:7000:71B2:5DD6:A6D2:4AB6 (talk) 13:22, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Olasky, Susan (2008-06-28). "Commuter-driven Bestseller". World Magazine. Retrieved 2009-05-14.

[2] "A God Who Looks Like Aunt Jemima". Macleans. 2008-08-20. Retrieved 2009-05-14.

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