“A state of divine carelessness”
In the image of an Imaginer
Dorothy L. Sayers on the inevitability of analogical language about God (and everything else)
A George MacDonald symposium
Excerpts from four interviews talking about the work of George MacDonald: Michael Di Fuccia, Marianne Wright, David Fagerberg, and Daniel Gabelman. (28 minutes)
George MacDonald on the imagination
Readings from two essays by George MacDonald about how the human imagination is “made in the image” of God's imagination. (20 minutes)
Christina Rossetti and George MacDonald revisited
Alan Jacobs talks about the theme of renunciation in Christina Rossetti’s poems, and Stephen Prickett looks at aspects of nineteenth-century Romanticism from which George MacDonald’s work emerges. (33 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 148
FEATURED GUESTS:
Steven D. Smith, Willem Vanderburg, Jeffrey Bilbro, Emma Mason, Alison Milbank, and Timothy Larsen
How myth speaks to deep desires in the human heart
Rolland Hein explains that George MacDonald is a writer of myth functioning rightly, and that such myth affects people a-rationally, stirring something in them much deeper than intellect or emotion alone. (15 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 142
FEATURED GUESTS:
Stanley Hauerwas, Perry L. Glanzer, Nathan F. Alleman, Jeffrey Bishop, Alan Jacobs, D. C. Schindler, and Marianne Wright
Gisela Kreglinger: Victorian Wisdom for Contemporary Plights
Gisela Kreglinger considers how George MacDonald’s perspective on gender roles might guide us through some of the questions, problems, and concerns we face today. (68 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 121
FEATURED GUESTS:
Daniel Gabelman, Curtis White, Michael Hanby, Alan Jacobs, James K. A. Smith, Bruce Herman, and Walter Hansen
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 76
FEATURED GUESTS: D. H. Williams, Catherine Edwards Sanders, Ted Prescott, Martin X. Moleski, Stephen Prickett, and Barrett Fisher
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 75
FEATURED GUESTS: Mark Malvasi, John Lukacs, Steve Talbott, Christian Smith, Eugene Peterson, and Rolland Hein