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This is a wonderfully enticing ad for a conference in Atlanta, featuring some of the hot shots in the evangelical movement. 

I'm familiar with a couple of these guys.

I'm also familiar with how many of them view the role of women in ministry: to support their husbands but to have very little official authority in the life of the church.  Take a look at the "Pastor's Wives Track." I have been served and taught and led by a number of outstanding women in ministry and am thankful that I belong to a denomination that would face much internal criticism if it tried to pull off a conference that was segregated in this way.  I'm not quite sure how Trisha Davis gets to speak alongside her husband.

Mind you, I'm sure there will be a lot of great teaching at the conference. I'd love to hear Pete Wilson, Ed Stetzer, and Chris Seay.  But I can't believe what gets said on the main floor and in that wonderful "Pastor's Wives Track" wouldn't be beneficial for all.

Well, if our boys aren't learning as much about being "male" from the Disney Princess movies as the girls are...merely because they may not watch them as much, these movies do teach us something about being male.  And, if this graphic (from imgur.com) has any truth to it, we're in trouble.

At Girdwood Chapel, we are getting into the Parables of Jesus throughout the summer and I've been saying that it's true that we learn though stories.  They teach us. The shape us into being certain types of people.

That said, I have four daughters and each of them has latched on to a particular Disney Princess.  Our youngest twins idealize Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella and, on many nights my wife and I get to hear made up songs about each of these characters.

So, what are our children learning from Disney Princesses?  If the following graphics are any indication, it might not be as harmless I I hope it is.

From BoingBoing by way of Dave Warnock's Blog:

Which is very similar to this image from Sociological Images: