Author: Yvette Harding

By Yvette Harding — As family and friends gathered in her hospice room read the prayers sent by mail from 450 people who heard her plight over the radio, Barbara Snyder, dying in bed, twisted like a pretzel from multiple sclerosis, heard a voice from the corner, where nobody was. “My child, get up and walk,” the voice said. Startled but surging with faith, Barbara sat up, scooted her legs over the side of her bed, sat up, put her feet flat on the floor. She hadn’t done/couldn’t do any of those things during seven years of deterioration. “My feet…

By Yvette Harding — Kathy Ireland, at 18, lived in the dungeon. “I was staying in the apartment of an agent and I didn’t feel safe there,” Kathy said. “I would lock myself in my room.” The room was at the end of a dark hallway and all-around creepy. The other models felt an evil presende there and called it the dungeon. But in this room Kathy found the light of God. Kathy Ireland grew up believing in God, but she never truly knew him. When she was 18, just beginning her modeling career and living in the home of…

By Yvette Harding — Driven to know what lay beyond the tomb, Becky Haag wanted to die. “I was miserable. I was depressed. I was suicidal,” she says. “I wanted to die because I wanted to know what was going to happen when I died so bad that I was just like, Take me now so I can just go ahead and know. It was eating me alive.” Becky’s spinout was the natural progression for a girl who grew up “Christian” but didn’t know God. She turned to New Age to create her own happiness but eventually despaired and searched…

By Yvette Harding – In What’s So Amazing About Grace, Philip Yancey argued vividly for a church with more grace and less judgmentalism. With endless, compelling anecdotes and a revitalizing thesis, Yancey became an overnight sensation, a beloved hero and leader of Christianity. He sold 15M books. Philip Yancey just confessed to sustaining and extramarital affair for eight years. “To my great shame,” started Yancey. “I confess that for eight years I willfully engaged in a sinful affair with a married woman.” Say it isn’t so. Yancey announced his retirement from ministry. He says he’s disqualified. He waited until retirement…

By Yvette Harding – After becoming a high priest of Mormonism, Michael Wilder worried about polygamy, once a part of the religion. “It was always one of those things on the shelf that I was never comfortable with,” Wilder says. “I just prayed, ‘God is polygamy and an eternal principle?’ It’s almost like I felt a presence behind me. I actually heard these words in my right ear: ‘No. It is not of me. It is of man.’” After three decades in Mormonism, the high-ranking clergyman left the religion by reading the Bible. He is exposing the secret Temple ceremonies,…