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The Golden Bird

The Golden Bird

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Alicia examines how a Christian artist could approach retelling “The Golden Bird” in the light of Scripture. Topics discussed include good Edens vs. false Edens, a Scriptural view of gold, and Biblical approaches to betrayal.

Resources

  • Wilkie Collins’s A Woman in White (both the book and the 2018 miniseries)
  • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
  • Susan Gaskell’s North and South
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden
  • A.A. Milne’s Winne the Pooh

Bonus: For a more thorough discussion of the imagery of the princess in this tale, see Nicholas Kotar’s episode, “Princess Ivan and the Gray Wolf,” from his podcast, In a Certain Kingdom.

Music: Intro from Adam Saban’s “Tales from the Past”; episode segments from Adam Saban’s “Journey to a New World”

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