William Paul Young, author of the paradigm-shifting best-seller The Shack (Windblown Media/Hachette Book Group), got some prime time recently on ABC’s Good Morning America. Interviewer Robin Roberts seemed personally pleased with the success of Young’s novel and affirmed in their conversation that “God knows all.”

Having sold more than 6 million copies, The Shack prompted testimonies sent to ABC’s Web site, three which were aired, including a woman learning to grieve her son who committed suicide.

“I think it asks the questions that we’ve been wanting to talk about for a long time,” Young said of his novel. “It’s almost like it’s given a language to people to have conversations with.”

Young’s current project is his autobiography, which his wife—who prompted him to write The Shack—has encouraged him to do.

Truly, The Shack can be paradigm-shifting in terms of how readers view God, but I wonder how much of a best-seller it would be if God were not a large African-American woman, a carpenter and an ethereal Asian spirit rolled into one?

Watch the interview on the Good Morning America Web site.

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