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Doctoral Thesis: ‘Rooted in all its story, more is meant than meets the ear’: a study of the relational and revelational nature of George MacDonald’s mythopoeic art

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Book Review: The Door on Half-Bald Hill, by Helena Sorenson

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Cultivating Apprehension: Beauty & Kids’ Lit

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Curdie’s Intertextual Dialogue: Engaging Maurice, Arnold, and Isaiah

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Deliver Us from Atrophy: on disconnection from the Written Word

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Forward & Afterward to Romanian translation of Barfield’s “The Child & The Giant.”

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Forward & Afterward to Romanian translation of MacDonald’s “The Golden Key.” (English translation here)

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“George MacDonald (Biographic),” The Encylopedia of Christian Civilization

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Musings, Forward, & Afterward to MacDonald’s The Golden Key

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“Servant of All: Arthurian Peregrinations in Phantastes,” in The Inklings and King Arthur

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Speaking Matrilineally (and especially of Uncle Mackintosh MacKay)

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Tolkien’s Mythopoesis (original title: “Branches on the Tree of Tales: Tolkien and Mythopoesis,” attributed to “Kirstin Johnson.”)

“The Curdie Books, Please”: C. S. Lewis’ Co-creative Reading in That Hideous Strength

Theology

A Call to Childlikeness (part of the ‘Patheos Public Square’ series on “The Spirituality of Children.”)

Advent Meditation on George MacDonald's Christmas Hymn, “That Holy Thing”

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At Home with Unicorns: Asserting our Christian Literary Heritage

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Every Wrinkle Tells A Story: Celebrate or Eradicate? (part of the ‘Patheos Public Square’ series on “Faith and Aging.”)

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Factual Myth, the Legend of Faith (part of the ‘Patheos Public Square’ series on “Myth, Imagination, Fairy Tales, and Fantasy. And Faith.”)

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“‘Just the Time for Story-telling’: George MacDonald & a Christ-wise Imagination” Redux Magazine

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Rooted Deep: Discovering the Literary Identity of Mythopoeic Fantasist George MacDonald.

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“Sacred Story: MacDonald’s Use of Fiction.” in MacDonald Centenary Issue, Christian History & Biography.

“That Holy Thing: George MacDonald Advent reflection,” in The Grand Miracle: Daily Reflections for the Season of Agent. (2019)

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“The Storyteller.” Article in “Seven Literary Sages,” Christian History.

“Unraveling Phantastes.” in MacDonald Centenary Issue, Christian History & Biography. (2005)

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“What C.S. Lewis Learned from his ‘Master’,” article in “Seven Literary Sages,” Christian History Magazine

The Arts

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“David Jones: Introit Invitation” ArtWay Visual Meditation

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“Tolkien at Christmas: Three Gift-giving Fathers” ArtWay Visual Meditation

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“Awakening the Fools: Cecil Collins’ The Joy of the Fool” ArtWay Visual Meditation (in English and in Dutch)

“Leaping into the Liminal: Erica Grimm’s Only Say the Word” ArtWay Visual Meditation

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“Life More Abundant: Emily Carr” ArtWay Visual Meditation

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“Transformative Reception: Arcabas’ L’onction de Nard” ArtWay Visual Meditation

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At Home with Unicorns

Once upon a Christmas, many years ago, my sister and I awoke to discover the horns snapped off of every single one of our unicorn sugar cookies...

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Deliver Us from Atrophy

My father gave me this page (in photo above) when I was about twelve. It is from a Lady’s Prayer Book, used for devotional reading, and was crafted in France...

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Cultivating Apprehension

If it were possible via the internet, I would begin this article by asking you to close your eyes and listen, as I read a short story called “An Epiphany Tale” by George McKay...

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