Dipping the Quill Deeper & Diving into the Unknown
by Eva Marie Everson @EvaMarieEverson Did you know that George MacDonald (1824 � 1902), a man with errant hair, a wild beard, and piercing eyes, mentored Lewis Carroll ( Alice�s Adventures in Wonderland )? That he was a pioneer in the field of �fantasy fiction��that piece of literature set in other worlds? Places where a writer�s imagination runs free and a reader�s is set to flight? Did you know he influenced writers such as Lewis, Tolkien, L�Engle, and (most likely) Twain, who disliked him at first blush. But did you also know that in addition to being a fantasy writer, MacDonald�whose spiritual life was influenced by the Congregational Church, Calvinism, Catholicism, Presbyterianism, the Free Church, and the Episcopalian Church�was, himself, a controversial preacher? A writer of apologetics? That he penned some of the most lyrical words to God our modern eyes should chance to read? Allow yourself just a few moments to read his poem from Diary of An Old Soul: All things ar...