Ask Michael Phillips
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. 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 1980s inaugurated the publication of MacDonald's original works in the Sunrise Centenary Editions series.
Perhaps no one on the planet has more knowledge of the life and works of MacDonald, and here on this page, Michael fields any and all questions concerning the great man.
Q: I am beginning a journey to discover the truth of what I'll call for now, MacDonald's “Consuming Fire” ...I first need to know what MacDonald says about God.... So my question is, what book of his should I read first?
A: What a wonderful question! I could just answer you by recommending a book or two, and leave it at that....
Q: What was the first thing you read of MacDonald's, and when (or how) did you find yourself passionately pursuing a study of his life and works?
A: ...your question highlights a universal experience those of us all share who have come to love the writings of George MacDonald. We are moving through life minding our own business—or so we think!—when a chance encounter, word, circumstance, or book recommended by a friend…when something causes us to pause a moment and take a second look at something beneath our feet. ...we realize that in MacDonald’s writings we have truly stumbled upon a great treasure...that begins to change how we think, how we view God and the world and ourselves. Thereafter life is never the same....
