George MacDonald
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Oct 28, 2026
Jess SteereGUEST
But in this case, I wanted to create a space that was more of a a space for believers who might be struggling a little bit in their faith, particularly as it relates to the college environment, and just introduce them to the vast wealth of Christian philosophy and theology and just literary thoughtfulness that's out there.
Jess SteereGUEST
So introducing them to authors like GK Chesterton and CS Lewis and and even like Dorothy Sayers and George McDonald and stuff like that.
Jess SteereGUEST
And many of those guys are are are pipe smokers.
Jess SteereGUEST
And so sometimes that would somehow come up in the group.
Fred YoungPANELIST
And I love McDonald.
Fred YoungPANELIST
I think we're all probably fans of McDonald's.
Fred YoungPANELIST
But he says this, we do not hope half enough.
Mike ZenkerHOST
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Michelle Anya AnjirbagGUEST
So we definitely have this wonderful moment from Oscar Wilde going forward.
Michelle Anya AnjirbagGUEST
We also have this wonderful moment going backwards, and we can go from Oscar Wilde back and we can look at George MacDonald's work, who also wrote literary fairy tales.
Michelle Anya AnjirbagGUEST
He's got a beautiful play on Sleeping Beauty called The Light Princess, and he's written some wonderful fairy tales as well.
Michelle Anya AnjirbagGUEST
And then we can kind of go back into what we consider more kind of classic or what's become the classic fairy tales in the process of collecting.
Addison HornstraGUEST
And,
Angelina StanfordHOST
you know, you read George MacDonald and you're like, he was not kidding.
Angelina StanfordHOST
He was not kidding.
Angelina StanfordHOST
I mean, further up and further in, is there a more quintessential Lewis idea, right? And then you find out it's not Lewis.
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Addison HornstraGUEST
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Addison HornstraGUEST
I feel like, you know, that's Lewis Carroll turning in his grave right there.
Addison HornstraGUEST
Okay, so what both Lewis Carroll and George MacDonald are trying to do, and perhaps George MacDonald did it even better, honestly, I'm inclined to say he did, was show that repentance and hope belong to experience, not to innocence.
Addison HornstraGUEST
Right, because you can't have hope for something if you don't also have the knowledge that what you're existing in right now, the state that you're in, is not sufficient.
Tom CrawfordNARRATOR
This might be possible in a curved space of four dimensions, although Wells professes to poo-poo such an absurd suggestion while he ingeniously insinuates it.
Tom CrawfordNARRATOR
George MacDonald, in his fantastic romance Lilith, also introduces the fourth dimension.
Tom CrawfordNARRATOR
Points that are far apart, if measured in three dimensions, may be close together in the fourth.
Tom CrawfordNARRATOR
We can readily understand this if time is the fourth dimension, for events can happen at the same instant, though thousands of miles apart.
Elisabeth ElliotSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And yet, it was through those that the Lord made alive to me these wonderful passages from the scripture.
Elisabeth ElliotSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
George MacDonald said, obedience is the opener of eyes.
Elisabeth ElliotSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And don't you see that in your little children? You mothers, you have the solemn responsibility of teaching your children to follow, teaching your children to give up their right to themselves, teaching the children to take up the cross in ways in which Only you can explain to that child.
Elisabeth ElliotSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then to follow.
speaker_2HOST
It's to take the evil on himself and suffer so that all of us can live and be set free.
speaker_2HOST
George MacDonald put it this way, the final triumph of God is not greater over violence, overpowering evil, but love stronger than everything opposing it.
speaker_2HOST
And the elder says, look at that, behold, what God has done.
speaker_2HOST
You weep, you look, but third and lastly, you sing.
Shelley WeingartNARRATOR
Story number one in Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 5.
Shelley WeingartNARRATOR
A Double Story, Chapter 12, by George MacDonald.
Shelley WeingartNARRATOR
This is a LibriVox recording.
Shelley WeingartNARRATOR
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
AdrienneHOST
So, yeah, I think I think that that's something that as teachers and parents, we need to really take into consideration of stepping back and letting that magic happen.
AdrienneHOST
And George McDonald talks about this in his Fantastic Imagination podcast.
AdrienneHOST
I don't know if you've ever read that one, but it's fantastic.
AdrienneHOST
You would love it.
John O'LearyHOST
The most impactful book you've ever read is?
William Paul YoungGUEST
Unspoken Sermons, Creation in Christ by George McDonald.
John O'LearyHOST
What is one positive characteristic or one trait you possessed as a little boy that you wish you exhibited as brilliantly today?
William Paul YoungGUEST
Ooh, innocence.
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