True2Soul Radio - Soul Food Series: "Broken Whole"

True2Soul Radio is honoured to chat with Wm. Paul Young - New York Times Best-selling Author of The Shack - which is now a film featuring Octavia Spencer and Sam Worthington. The Shack is about the incredible journey of a man whose daughter is abducted and murdered. Although Mr Young initially only printed 15 copies of this novel for his family, The Shack has sold over 20 million copies worldwide.

Wm Paul Young is also the author of Cross Roads, and Eve, and has recently released non-fiction Lies We Believe about God. He was born a Canadian and raised among a stone-age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was Netherlands New Guinea (now West Papua). He suffered great loss as a child and young adult, and now enjoys the "wastefulness of grace" with his growing family in the Pacific Northwest.

Facts never tell real stories. The journey has been both incredible and unbearable, a desperate grasping after grace and wholeness, the pain of trying to adjust to different cultures, of life losses that seemed too staggering to bear, of living with an underlying volume of shame so deep 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. A 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.

Join us in the True2Soul Radio virtual studio - as Wm. Paul Young generously shares the incredible life journey and unbearable life experiences that fuelled the creation of The Shack, and have ultimately broken him whole. The studio audience will be invited to ask questions after the interview-style chat.