Sermons & Sacred Prose

Preaching and sacred reflection as a literary art — George MacDonald’s spiritual writings, devotional essays, and the prose of faith.

The pulpit as literature

In this collection

• The Quran
• Popol Vuh
• Tao Te Ching
• The Great Learning
• Thus Spake Zarathustra
• Divine Comedy
• Paradise Lost
• Father Sergius
• The Ramayan
• The Minor Canon
• Father Macclesfields Tale
• The Bishops Dilemma
• The Madman: His Parables and Poems
• Father Meuron's Tale
• The Earth Gods
• Sand and Foam
• In Church
• The Garden Of The Prophet
• The Golden Key
• The Prayer
• The Parson's Experiment
• The Prophet
• Songs and Sonnets
• Christianity and Morals
• The Book Of Mormon
• The History of Spiritualism, Volume II
• The History of Spiritualism, Volume I
• Death Comes for the Archbishop
• Magnificent Obsession
• The Big Fisherman
• The Robe
• How Great Is The Glory Of Kwannon!, A Japanese Story
• St. Thomas Aquinas
• The Everlasting Man
• The Innocence of Father Brown
• I Have Been To The Mountaintop
• A Saint Recanonized
• The Reality of Prayer
• Essentials of Prayer
• The Art of Illustration
• The Tree of Beauty
• Healed Soul and Body
• I have the Comforter
• The New York Herald Reporter who Lived for Two Worlds

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