Finding Faith Everywhere

Beginner's Guide to Finding the Christianity hidden in fairy tales and fiction shows you the Christianity hiding in plain sight in stories

The Little Mermaid by Disney was based on the story by Hans Christian Anderson. The original was built on a Christian framework

The Disney fairy tales are based on older versions of the stories by Mother Goose, the Grimms, and Andersen. Is that a good or a bad thing?

Satire exposes the ideas that we’ve adopted without really thinking them through. But is this appropriate for young children?

Are fairy tales just stories for northern Europeans? Let's talk about the sources of many of these wonderful stories from other cultures

Why are there so few fairies in fairy tales, and why do we even call those stories "fairy tales" if there are rarely any fairies in them?

Which is better: Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, or the Chronicles of Narnia? Lord of the Rings is an epic Narnia is a fairy tale

Stuffed animals don’t generally become real animals. If they did, we wouldn’t allow kids to play with stuffed lions, tigers, or bears.

The Sleeping Beauty, Rosamund, is a long wished-for child. When we encounter that situation in the Bible there is often a special revelation

This summary is based on the version of Beauty and the Beast by Charles Perrault, which is also the version that used and adapted by Disney

Hansel and Gretel is about Adam and Eve, salvation, and the reuniting of a family in heaven after their fall and redemption.

Snow White, in the version by the Brothers Grimm, is a Christian fairy tale about creation, the fall, death, resurrection, and salvation.

Part of the Fairy Tale Fridays series, the Fairy Tale Summaries with Cinderella! And finding the Christianity that’s hidden in plain sight

The classic fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen, are intentionally Christian stories

No one gets married, and then lives happily ever after. Or kills an evil witch who’s trying to eat them, and then lives happily ever after

Why should we read fairy tales to children? Are fairy tales just for children? Why are fairy tales important today?