The Great Divorce Discussion – Chapter 9 – George MacDonald
George MacDonaldIntroduction: I was wondering who would get this chapter… There is a lot here, especially for those of us who have neglected our classical liberal arts education. But, I’ll give it a...
View ArticleThe Great Divorce Discussion – Chapter 10 – Bad Love
Close to Home OK, this one is a bit too close to home for me. No, neither my wife nor my ex-wife were like the female Ghost. But I have had a relationship like that: where a woman close to me was more...
View ArticleThe Great Divorce Discussion – Chapter 11 – Noble & Base
The Motherly Ghost The next ghost Jack (and MacDonald) witness is a women conversing with her Bright Spirit brother. She is disappointed, preferring it to be her son who had come to meet her. We learn...
View ArticleThe Great Divorce Discussion – Chapter 12 to 13a – The Tragedian
Saarah Smith and the Tragedian Jack and his mentor come upon a Heavenly woman, whom at first Jack seems to mistakes for Mary, mother of Jesus. The mentor corrects him and says she was a woman known as...
View ArticleJesus, Redemption, Atheists, Works, and the Pope
Great! First, I’m dissing Islam and Muslims… Now I’m having issues with the new Pope! What’s a good Christian boy to do!? I kind-of liked the last one (the Pope that is), Benedict (he called a spade a...
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