Winter Spring Reading at the Wade

In Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton presents his own provocative defense for his Christian faith, affirming its indispensable relation to Fairyland, which, he asserts “is nothing but the sunny country of common sense.”

All Hallow’s Eve is Charles Williams’ final fantasy novel and the only one that would have been read to the Inklings. In the story, two girls are accidentally killed and find themselves in a no-man’s land between heaven and hell. The unfolding plot shows them making choices and having certain interactions with people on earth that seal their final destinies. As we meet a prophet who is an Anti-Christ and a painter who in his work captures profound spiritual truths, we come to a fuller understanding of the nature of the City of the Redeemed. The novel offers definitive expression to Williams’ characteristic teachings on co-inherence, exchange, and the thoroughly sacramental nature of life.

In What’s Mine’s Mine, George MacDonald takes us into northern Scotland, where the invasion of English money and privileged attitudes works agonizing hardship upon native Highlanders. Thematically, the story highlights the deleterious effects upon the human spirit of the love of money, and of a doctrinally askewed Christianity.