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Episode 156: The “Best of” Series – Why Read Fairy Tales, Ep. 70

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Are Fairy Tales Escapists?

I think that there is a concern sometimes among parents that if their kids are just reading all these fairy tales, it's escapists and they're always escaping into a dream world. I object strongly to anybody saying fairy tales are escapists because I think they put us into the heart of reality itself. And so you go in there and you encounter Christ in the fairy world and then you come back and you know how to find him here. All of these things are transcendent that they're all magical they're all enchanted.

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