
His mother-in-law, brother and 5-year-old niece died unexpectedly within six months of each other. The year I finally felt I was healthy enough as a human being to do it,” Young says.īefore writing it, Young dealt with major losses in his family. “I never felt really ready to do that in any kid of overt way until the year I turned 50. Young’s motivations to write the book came from his wife Kim repeatedly asking him, for almost four years, to write a book for their kids because he thinks outside the box. Cramer says he’s excited to interview Young and describes him as “very raw and very honest.” “The Shack,” Pastor Cramer says, goes after some big questions about life. In addition to his own questions, Cramer will take questions for Young from the church’s Facebook community. Pastor Chris Cramer will interview Young at both the 9:30 and 11:15 a.m. He will be at the Orchard Grove Community Church in Walled Lake on Feb. Since writing “The Shack,” Young has been a guest speaker at all types of events. He meets a trio led by Papa (Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer) who helps Mack better understand his tragedy, changing his life forever. Later, Mack receives a letter inviting him to an abandoned shack in the Organ wilderness.

It stars in Sam Worthington as Mack Phillips, who faces a tragedy that shakes his faith to the core. The film opens in theaters nationwide on March 3. Nine years and more than 22 million copies later, “The Shack” has been turned into a movie.


So I didn’t have any imagination of what this could turn into,” Young says.

“It wasn’t even on my radar because by that time in my life I had already learned how to live just inside the grace of one day. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List in 2008. Author William Paul Young never dreamed the book he wrote for his six kids would rise to No.
