Onesimus

Catalyst

Onesimus is a PME (Professional MacDonald Enthusiast) and the editor of Consuming Fire: The Inexorable Power of God’s Love, the devotional version of MacDonald's Unspoken Sermons. He has adopted the name of the runaway slave who was the inspiration for the Apostle Paul’s letter to Philemon in the New Testament.

Michael Phillips

MacDonald Guru at Large

Michael Phillips, best-selling Christian writer and novelist, is one of the key individuals responsible for reawakening worldwide public interest in George MacDonald through publication of his edited and original editions of MacDonald's books. Phillips first discovered MacDonald's work in the early 1970's. Dismayed to learn that all MacDonald's major fiction, as well as most other titles, were unavailable, Phillips embarked on an ambitious lifetime project to re-introduce the world to the remarkable Victorian author. He is also MacDonald's biographer--George MacDonald, Scotland's Beloved Storyteller--and in the 1980's inaugurated the publication of MacDonald's original works in the Sunrise Centenary Editions series.

Dan MacDonald

Executive Editor from York, Maine

Dan serves as a  childcare worker supervisor in a group home for kids who cannot live at home.  He's been in and around the field for thirty years for free or for pay, and has been a fan of George MacDonald fan since his teen years, when he read Phantastes and Lilith in a one-volume edition.  

KAREN TRATE SCHEFFLER 

Executive Editor from Montgomery, Vermont

Karen writes: I knew much when I was a child; important things , like God is  'there' and 'here'. My life has been much a 'getting to know Him' life -- I think I'm journeying backwards, really; back to that child that holds my divine heart. I'm here because MacDonald shares his glimpses of the father and the son, and I am compelled  to see what he sees. I don't always understand him, nor like what he says, but that is my error. 

I'm an artist, a mom, a contemplative, a barista, someone who smiles often, and likes people, though a bit shy. 

CHARLES WATSON, SR.

Senior Hellologist

Charles Watson Sr. is a student of the Bible, an apologist, and a polemicist. Building on his Southern Baptist upbringing, Watson is a truth seeker—following the truth regardless of where it may lead. “Iron sharpens iron, just as one man sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17

Melissa Alvey

Designer from California

Melissa was first introduced to George MacDonald when her high school art teacher lent her a copy of The Princess and the Goblin. Since then, she has referred to George MacDonald as her magical Grandfather. Embracing the meaning of her name (Melissa means "honeybee"), she sees herself on a mission to search for beauty even in the midst of uncertainty. 
You can view her artwork and designs at melissalalvey.com

Jess Lederman

Amanuensis to Onesimus, Camas, Washington

Jess helps out here and there. His very patient wife, Ling, recently gave birth to their first child, and he thanks Abraham and Zechariah for their insightful on-line tutorial, Fatherhood for Oldsters; and of course Christ Jesus, King of Kings, for the miracle of little David Elginbrod Lederman, who arrived exactly one month before George's birthday.