Philip Yancey says, "I am where you are... an ordinary person trying to figure things out. I'm a human being: I love, I weep, my friends die, I experience beauty, I live. And as I live, I try to figure out if there is a God, and what difference would that make... This book comes out of my own search and is written specifically on behalf of those who live on the borderlands of belief - the region between belief and unbelief."
In Rumors of Another World, Philip Yancey asks, "Is the visible world around us all there is?" and "What rumors of another world might it convey?" He then exemines the apparent contradictions. If this is God's world, why doesn't it look more like it? Why is this planet so messed up? Finally, the book considers how two worlds - the visible and invisible, natural and supernatural - might interact and affect our daily lives.
Throughout, Yancey invites readers to explore the difference the answers make in coming to grips with our lives.