Finding Faith Everywhere

Do you know what all of these stories have in common? Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card The...

Alice in Wonderland with the potion that changes Alice's size, the white rabbit, Cheshire cat at the tea party with lots of tea and tea cups

Using a real demon as a character in a fictional story creates an incredibly boring story. The solution? Use a devil in disguise!

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

In the Harry Potter series, Sybil Trelawney can be difficult character to defend for Christians. I'll show you how to do that in this post

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?

Why Does Cinderella Wear Glass Slippers? That was a question a student asked me once when I was teaching high school literature. We’d...

What kind of magic is there in the Lord of the Rings? How are the elves magic? What about the one ring, Sauron and the magic rings of power?

Is there magic in The Hobbit? What About the Magic Ring in The Hobbit? And what is elven magic? From the series, Magic in Christian Fiction.

Why is the wardrobe magical? Aslan talks about the “deep magic” that rules Narnia, but what is that? What about the White Witch?

If fairy tales are Christian stories, and Christian stories are always about salvation, how do we explain the magic in fairy tales?

There are 3 reasons in this blog post about why I think that Harry Potter is a fairy tale, and that Harry is from the world of Faerie.

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

I’m not going to mock parents who are concerned about the Harry Potter books. The formation of the souls of their children is important.

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 Harry Potter books have been an issue for Christians almost from the first moment that J.K. Rowling published her books in the US.