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SUNDAY, NOV 18, 2012| 4 comments

'The Shack' Author Returns With 'Cross Roads'

From the ever-imaginative mind of William Paul Young comes Cross Roads, a novel that surely will be compared with his first work of fiction, the self-published phenomenon The Shack.

Though the story is different, the new work has some of the same themes as his first, including the struggle to understand the character of God and nontraditional manifestations of the three persons of the Trinity.

Cross Roads launches with an overly lengthy description of 45-year-old Anthony Spencerâ€”Tony to his friends, if he has anyâ€”a ruthless, paranoid businessman with an estranged wife whom he divorced and later remarried not out of love, but to experience the satisfaction of leaving her a second time. However, Tony, who grew up in the foster care system, practically idolized his son, who died at age 6. In his grief, he became a shell of a man and rejected his daughter. ...

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11/18/12 9:44 PM

Neil

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The article reads suspiciously like corporate PR, rather than a book review. Perhaps the writer was paid by the publisher.

11/18/12 8:09 PM

icamewithasword

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Can't blame a guy for making a buck.
Books like this come out in print because their are so many Christians looking for a better book to read.

11/18/12 9:52 AM

jpw

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the shack had some creepy thinking, unbelievable what Christians will tolerate if its called Christian.

11/18/12 7:43 AM

The poster formerly known as Russ

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Awesome! More heretical doctrine neatly and conspicuously packaged in the form of an entertaining work of fiction. Thanks William!

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