Alicia Pollard and a returning guest, K.C. (Kimberlee) Ireton, discuss Kimberlee’s theological reading of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen.” They discuss the images of the mirror and the nature of evil; perfection in roses vs. snowflakes; isolation; resurrection; summer; and much more. 

Resources

• K. C. Ireton’s website: kcireton.com (Enter your email and get two free chapters of “A Yellow Wood”)
• K. C. Ireton’s Substack: kcireton.substack.com (Grab your free copy of “Rose at Dawn,” a fairy tale retelling)
• Tiina Nunnally’s translation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales
• Albert Mohler’s talk on the noetic (knowledge-related) effects of sin: https://www.ligonier.org/posts/session-3-albert-mohler-2012-national-conference
• Vigen Guorian’s Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child’s Moral Imagination
• C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters
• For more on the Deadly Sin of Sloth (acedia), see R.J. Snell’s Acedia and its Discontents or Kathleen Norris’s Acedia and Me

Music: intro from Adam Saban’s “Tales from the Past”; episode segments from Adam Saban’s “The Enchanted Castle”