We received six excellent entries to our “Setting MacDonald to Music” competition, in honor of George’s upcoming 200th birthday. After much deliberation, the judges decided to split the first-place award between…

“Love Is Home,” is from MacDonald’s Violin Songs. This poem appealed to me for its combination of precision and wildness, representing both the duty and the freedom involved in coming home to the God worth believing in. My sincere thanks to sublime soprano Dru Rutledge for singing it so beautifully.

I remember my dad reading The Princess and the Goblin to me as a kid, and that was what first introduced me to George MacDonald and his work. Sometime afterwards, I came across The Light Princess and immediately fell in love with the story…

I read my first George MacDonald books in the nineties when I was a high schooler because my dad bought a lot of his books at that time.  I was blown away by his imagination and his portrayal of the power of God's love and goodness in [his] books and stories…

The World of George MacDonald, edited by Rolland Hein, introduced me long ago to the wisdom running throughout MacDonald's novels…

One of the ways I seek spiritual sustenance is through listening to edifying works on long drives. I discovered a set of audio CDs on eBay with the promising title The Hope of the Gospel, by someone I had never heard of named George MacDonald…

The poet George MacDonald would have intuitively understood Hegel’s “othering.” Even though these two men never knew each other, there is a strange likeness between Hegel and MacDonald, a shared tendency to start small and increase. Hegel never stopped expanding. By the time of his death, Hegel’s philosophy included everything; he was the last of the great systematisers – he even claimed that his philosophy was the culmination of logic, nature and spirit! Though MacDonald’s creativity is not as unbounded (or egoistic) as that of Hegel, MacDonald has a similar expansive creativity…