《游子吟》作者冯秉诚牧师安息主怀 享年84岁
华人基督教界知名牧师、护教学著作《游子吟——永恒在召唤》作者冯秉诚（笔名「里程」），7月23日在美国安息主怀，享年84岁。他于2025年确诊淋巴癌，此后一直在治疗与休养中。
冯秉诚1941年12月23日出生，毕业于北京大学生物系，1981年获中国科学院研究生院硕士学位，1982年赴美深造，1987年获密西根州立大学博士学位。此后他先后在俄亥俄大学、凯斯西储大学工作，1993年起在威斯康星医学院从事医学基础研究，在国际学术期刊上发表了一系列研究论文。
他长期持无神论立场，直到1992年复活节受洗归主。1997年，他蒙召放下科研工作，全职投入传道，1999年至2001年进入美国海外神学院进修，之后在中国基督徒作家基金会担任专业作家，专事布道、培灵与写作。
1996年，他的代表作《游子吟——永恒在召唤》由海外校园杂志社与基督使者协会出版。书中，他以科学家的身份，从科学与理性的角度逐一回应进化、创造等信仰疑问，专为和当年的自己一样、在信仰门外徘徊的海外华人学人而写。此书简体版发行逾78万册，2002年英文版《Song of a Wanderer – Beckoned by Eternity》出版，被许多读者视为影响一代海外华人学人认识基督教信仰的护教学经典。他另著有《圣经的权威》《信仰、科学与人生》等作品。
在教会事工上，他早年在俄亥俄州克里夫兰中华福音教会担任执事；1993年举家迁往威斯康星州Milwaukee，在米城中华基督教会先后任执事、长老与差传牧师。多年来，他常应邀前往全美十余个州的华人教会、夏令会与福音营，主领布道与培灵聚会，并长期参与《海外校园》《生命季刊》等文字事工。
他在《游子吟》初版前言中自述：「旅美逾十载，仍梦思萦绕着故土。人生近半百，始回到天父怀抱。我以双重游子的身份，将此书献给神，献给海外学人和骨肉同胞。」这段话至今仍被许多海外华人读者引用。如今作者已经安息，他留下的著作仍在读者中间流传。
Rev. Bingcheng Feng, Author of 'Song of a Wanderer,' Dies at 84
The Rev. Bingcheng Feng, a prominent Chinese Christian pastor and author of the apologetics classic "Song of a Wanderer – Beckoned by Eternity," died in the United States on July 23 at the age of 84. Writing under the pen name Li Cheng, he had been diagnosed with lymphoma in 2025.
Feng was born on December 23, 1941. He graduated from the biology department of Peking University, earned a master's degree from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1981, came to the United States in 1982, and received his doctorate from Michigan State University in 1987. He went on to work at Ohio University and Case Western Reserve University, and from 1993 conducted basic medical research at the Medical College of Wisconsin, publishing a series of papers in international journals.
A longtime atheist, Feng was baptized at Easter in 1992. In 1997 he answered a call to leave research and enter full-time ministry, studying at the Overseas Theological Seminary from 1999 to 2001. He then served as a staff writer with the Chinese Christian Writers Foundation, devoting himself to preaching, teaching and writing.
His best-known book, "Song of a Wanderer – Beckoned by Eternity," was published in 1996 by Overseas Campus Magazines and the Ambassadors for Christ. Drawing on his training as a scientist, Feng addressed questions about evolution, creation and faith from the standpoint of science and reason, writing for the overseas Chinese students and scholars who, like his younger self, stood outside the church looking in. The simplified-Chinese edition has sold more than 780,000 copies, and an English edition followed in 2002. Many readers regard it as an apologetics classic that shaped a generation of overseas Chinese scholars' encounter with Christianity. His other works include "The Authority of the Bible" and "Faith, Science and Life."
In church ministry, Feng served as a deacon at the Cleveland Chinese Gospel Church in Ohio. After moving his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1993, he served the Chinese Christian Church of Milwaukee as deacon, elder and missions pastor. Over the years he was invited to preach at Chinese churches, summer conferences and gospel camps in more than a dozen states, and contributed to print ministries such as Overseas Campus and Life Quarterly.
In the preface to the first edition of his book, Feng described himself as a wanderer twice over: more than a decade in America, still dreaming of his homeland; nearly fifty years old before returning to the embrace of his heavenly Father. The book he dedicated to God, to overseas Chinese scholars and to his compatriots remains in readers' hands today.
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图片来源：图片来源：《游子吟——永恒在召唤》书影（里程著，海外校园／基督使者协会出版）。Book cover of Song of a Wanderer — Beckoned by Eternity by Li Cheng (Overseas Campus / Ambassadors for Christ).
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