Articles & Chapters
Literature
“How Shall We Then Read? George MacDonald and the beginnings of a discipline called ‘English Literature’,” in The Undiscovered C. S. Lewis: Essays in Memory of Christopher W. Mitchell, ed. Bruce R. Johnson (Winged Lion Press, 2021), 88-112.
“Tribute to Colin Manlove & Stephen Prickett,” VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center 37, (2020): 5-7.
“George MacDonald & Mythopoesis: ‘One of the Greatest Arts,’” in The Inklings and Culture: A Harvest of Scholarship from the Inklings of Canada, ed. Monika B. Hilder, Laura L. Pearson, and Laura N. Van Dyke (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), 20-34.
“Rooted Deep: Relational Inkings of a Mythopoeic Maker, George MacDonald,” in Informing the Inklings: George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy, ed. Michael Partridge and Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson (Winged Lion Press, 2018): 31-56.
“Servant of All: Arthurian Peregrinations in George MacDonald,” in The Inklings & King Arthur: J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, & Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain, ed. Sørina Higgins (Apocryphile Press, 2017).
“Rooted Deep: Discovering the Literary Identity of Mythopoeic Fantasist George MacDonald,” Linguaculture 5, no. 2 (2014): 25-44.
“'The Curdie Books, Please': C. S. Lewis' Co-Creative Reading in That Hideous Strength,” Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal 5, no. 1 (2012): 43-66.
“Speaking Matrilineally (and Especially of Uncle Mackintosh MacKay),” in Rethinking George MacDonald: Contexts and Contemporaries, ed. Christopher MacLachlan, John Patrick Pazdziora, and Ginger Stelle (Scottish Literature International, 2012), 235-253.
“Rooted in all its Story, More is Meant than Meets the Ear: A Study of the Relational and the Revelational Nature of George MacDonald’s Mythopoeic Art,” North Wind, A Journal of George MacDonald Studies 30, (2011): 85-134.
“Review of Death and Fantasy: Essays on Phillip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and R.L. Stevenson,” Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal 4, no. 1 (2011): 197-199.
“A Critical Reinstatement: Dearborn’s The Baptized Imagination,” in VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center 27, (2010): 93-98.
“Conversing With Dante: Relational Assent in Charles Williams and George MacDonald,” in VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center 26, (2009): 16-39.
“Curdie’s Intertextual Dialogue: Engaging Maurice, Arnold, and Isaiah,” in George MacDonald: Literary Heritage and Heirs, ed. Roderick McGillis (Zossima Press, 2008), 153-182.
“Tolkien & Mythopoesis,” in Tree of Tales: Tolkien, Literature and Theology, ed. Trevor Hart and Ivan Khovacs (Baylor University Press, 2007), 25-38.
“The Progressive Key: A Study of Bunyan’s Influence in MacDonald’s 'The Golden Key',” North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies 16, (1997): 69-75.
Annotations for Jane Austen's Jack and Alice: A Novel, ed. Juliet McMaster (Juvenilia Press, 1992).
Theology & The Arts
with Sharon Jebb Smith. “‘A Childhood into Which We Have to Grow’: George MacDonald and Childlikeness,” in An Introduction to Child Theology, ed. James M. Houston (Cascade Books, 2021): 245-263.
“That Holy Thing: George MacDonald Advent reflection,” in The Grand Miracle: Daily Reflections for the Season of Advent, ed. Christian History Institute (Marion E. Wade Center, 2019).
“The Storyteller,” Christian History Magazine 113, (2015).
“What C.S. Lewis Learned from his ‘Master’,” Christian History Magazine 113, (2015).
“De balsemolie van Arcabas,” in Jezus Voor Ogen: Beelden en woorden voor de veertigdagentijd, ed. Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker (Buijten & Schipperheijn, 2012).
“George MacDonald,” in The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, vol. 3, ed. George T. Kurian (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
“The Adventure of Waiting Well,” in The Cradle and the Crown: A Regent College Advent Reader, ed. G. Richard Thompson, Susan M. Fisher, and Stacey Gleddiesmith (Regent College Publishing, 2006, 2011): 49.
“Storied Communion: The Compelling Example of Robert Coles,” (master’s thesis under Eugene Peterson, Regent College, 1998).
PhD Thesis
Rooted in all its Story, More is Meant than Meets the Ear: A Study of the Relational and Revelational Nature of George MacDonald's Mythopoeic Art, (PhD thesis under Trevor A. Hart, St Andrews University, 2011).
Book Introductions
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Introduction to Stephen Hesselman's graphic novel adaptation of George MacDonald's The Golden Key, (The Rabbit Room Press, 2023).
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Introduction to George MacDonald's The Hope of the Gospel, (The Works of George MacDonald Publishing, 2023).
Introduction to George MacDonald's Lilith, (The Works of George MacDonald Publishing, 2022).
Foreword and Afterword to Owen Barfield's The Child & The Giant. Translated into Romanian by Rodica Albu, (Ars Longa Publishing, 2018).
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Foreword and Afterword to George MacDonald’s The Golden Key. Translated into Romanian by Rodica Albu, (Ars Longa Publishing, 2016). (English translation here.)