When TheDoor’s Editorial Board put America’s favorite animated family on our cover (May/June 1999), we knew we were on the cutting edge of a cultural phenomenon. And it turns out we were right, when Mark Pinsky, religion editor for The Orlando Sentinel, penned The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World’s Most Animated Family. We kept up with this rage of pop culture gospel books by interviewing Connie Neal (The Gospel According to Harry Potter, June/July 2002) and Chris Seay (The Gospel According to Tony Soprano, January/February 2003). So, when we heard Mr. P. was coming out with The Gospel According to Disney: Cartoon Faith & Values (WJK), we told Door Contributing Editor Becky Garrison to stop Mickey Mousing around and give the dude a ring.

"If it succeeds, it’s good; if it fails, it’s not good. That’s the way we judge things in this culture."

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame was the most explicitly Christian film that Disney had ever made and the most positive towards the church. It was not embraced when it came out."

"I have this theory that when people sit in a pew, the veil of cynicism descends over them and everything they hear gets filtered through that veil."

The rest of this great interview is in the current issue of TheDoorMagazine, available in our online DoorStore.

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