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Have you been wondering who George MacDonald is, earlier I linked to Victorian Visionaries: George MacDonald's friends worked to reform society, challenge the church, and inspire the imagination. The Wise Imagination amd Love at the Heart of the Universe looks at George MacDonald, for whom belief in God and obedience to God went hand in hand. An excerpt from the second piece is given below . . .

MacDonald believed that wisdom is gained through the willingness to relinquish possessions, security, and control and to follow Christ regardless of the cost. Central to much of his writing is the theme of pilgrimage, in which the protagonist moves from a materialistic worldview to a more sacramental embrace of life and creation. Like Celtic heroes, called peregrini, the wanderers in MacDonald's Celtic-like stories grow in their love and compassion to the point of being willing to die for the sake of others. He believed that through dying to oneself, one develops the character and strength to be a true witness (martyr) to the nature of love that is at the heart of the universe.