Christian History Magazine—Issue 86: George MacDonald: Writer Who Inspired C.S. Lewis

Top Highlights

“The best thing you can do for your fellow,’ he wrote, ‘next to rousing his conscience, is—not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.’” (source)

“Perhaps Lewis’s greatest accolade to MacDonald was having him appear as his guide in The Great Divorce (like Virgil” (source)

“T. H. Huxley, invented a whole new category of doubters when he coined the word agnosticism in 186” (source)

“father of 11 children—he is a window into the Victorian period in all its dizzying diversity” (source)