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S2E8 "Slipper and the Rose and Why Adults Should Enjoy Fairytales"

1h 21m | Jun 11, 2025

We often relegate fairytales to children thinking that when we reach a certain agedness we no longer need them. If we do this, we deprive ourselves of respite and imagination, the wonderment of grace, and how to face mortality and the vanity of life.

This week, your favorite dynamic duo explore the magic of the Cinderella story retold with emotional and beautiful depth in "The Slipper and the Rose".

They also accidently fall into the world of Stephen Lawhead's "Song of Albion " Trilogy, a perfect example of how the secondary world (or fairy land) and primary (real world) feed into each other and how the two support each other.

More Fairy Tales: Grimm's Fairy Tales: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/

On Re-Enchantment: https://firstthings.com/thinking-twice-about-re-enchantment/

https://blog.ayjay.org/some-enchanted-evening/

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2023/10/awakening-moral-imagination-vigen-guroian-timeless.html?mc_cid=a94540758d&mc_eid=0ced15dc4b

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/10/tolkien-on-fairy-stories-argument-bradley-birzer.html?mc_cid=ecf758b3f9&mc_eid=0ced15dc4b

The things discussed: Slipper and the Rose:https://a.co/d/0ceLv4t

The Paradise War (Book 1 Song of Albion Trilogy): https://a.co/d/2Yi899c

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