How "The Light Princess" guides us to love that's redemptive.
We should care more, feel more, grieve more — but we can’t quite get our feet on the ground. Or we’re afraid to care more, lest it “distract me from Jesus.”
George MacDonald saw this coming. In The Light Princess, he gave us a heroine cursed with the inability to feel gravity (in any sense of the word). She floats through tragedy without being touched. She laughs when generals are cut to pieces. She thinks grief is just a funny face her mother makes. She’s bright, lovely, healthy — and utterly incapable of love.
Until the lake.
This episode follows our conversation about the resurrection into the question: if Christ vindicated material reality — forever — what do we do with it now? How do we stop treating the world as either an idol or an irrelevance? How do we learn to love through things rather than stopping at them?
Join Brian, Sarah, and special guests Lancia Smith (Cultivating Oaks Press, founding member of the Imagination Redeemed podcast) and Andrew Roycroft (poet and longtime pastor in Northern Ireland) for a conversation about lakes, longing, and the gravity that makes us human.
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