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    Stranded in Neverland

    Consumerism addicts us to immediate gratification and perpetual youth, but the cross lifts us to a more satisfying joy.

    Princesses scare me. It isn’t their volatile behavior, creepy step-mothers, or the ferocious fire-breathing beasts that often accompany them that worry me. Rather, it’s the mind control they have over my daughter. When she sees a princess, her pupils dilate and her head cocks. It’s like invisible fairies are whispering spells in her ear. Then she turns to me and says, “Daddy, can we buy that?”

    Disney’s “Princess” brand campaign was launched in 2000, when the company’s new chairman of consumer goods brought together Disney’s favorite heroines under one banner. Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Jasmine, and Ariel became a marketing dream team generating billions of dollars. They appeared on everything from DVDs to Band-Aids. The Disney spell was cast upon my daughter literally minutes after she entered…

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Recent Comments

  • Mike Batley: Skye certainly raises some interesting questions but what would he have us to do? This feels more like critical conversation that never seems to end of who is the church for? If it is...
  • Hillary: The church that I’m a part of has all of those spaces — the third space (cafe and bookstore), the entertaining kids’ area, and the theater space. We’re running...
  • Susan: So sad….I will always regret not getting to sail the Norway. We actually had a sailing booked for July 2003….when the tragic explosion happened! Needless to say, we ended up...
  • bramonius: as long a I don’t have to read cosmpolitan magasine, it sounds like being a cosmo christian is okay… In fact I think I’ve been one long before the term was made (and...
  • Jim Martin: Skye, A very god post. I think you are on target with this. In particular, I enjoy your reflections on the Cosmopolitan evangelicals. I especially appreciate your observations regarding...
  • Mandee: OMG. How did they let her look like that in 2008?? I was on her in 1987. They had just refurbished her. She was magnificent. What a shame.
  • Susan Berger: My husband and I first sailed on SS Norway in Feb. 1982, and then again with the kids in June of 1987. Such magnificence and wonderful memories. Hard to see what’s happening to...