I created the Leaf by Lantern podcast to open a conversation with Christian artists about how to retell fairy tales in the light of Scripture.

Show Description

Fellow Christian artists: join Alicia Pollard in discussing how the eternal Word of God clarifies and beautifies the craft of retelling fairy tales. Whether you are retelling a fairy tale in the form of a novel, play, poem, short story, painting, or opera, the Bible provides the perfect illumination for ethics and aesthetics, morality and mystery. Artists who follow Christ have no better lantern than Scripture for studying and adding leaves to what J.R.R. Tolkien called the “Tree of Tales”: the canon of folklore.

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Behind the Scenes

See more reflections on a few of the episodes in the blog posts below:

• Season 1, episode 3, “The Black Bull of Norroway,” and episode 4, “Maid Maleen with Loren G. Warnemuende,” here.
• Season 2, episodes 1, “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” and episode 2, “The Little Mermaid with K.C. Ireton,” here.
• Season 2, episodes 6, “The Golden Bird,” episode 7, “The Selkie Wife,” and episode 8, “The Frog Prince,” here.
• Written form only (no audio) of an episode on “The Seal-Catcher and the Merman” here.