Philip Yancey admits 8-year affair

Lydia Houghton  |  World
Date posted:  7 Jan 2026
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Philip Yancey admits 8-year affair

Philip Yancey. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Best-selling American devotional author Philip Yancey says he is "filled with remorse and repentance" after confessing to an eight-year affair with another man's wife.

He is retiring from Christian ministry.

Yancey - author of titles such as What's So Amazing About Grace? and Prayer: Does it Make Any Difference? - wrote in a statement to US-based magazine Christianity Today (CT): "I have failed morally and spiritually, and I grieve over the devastation I have caused.

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