You may have heard about the bride and groom who spent their catering budget on a special appearance by Mickey and Minnie Mouse. We suspected there might be something profound at the heart of all this, in both the fervent desire to have a Disney wedding and in the ridicule that followed. We spoke to a professor of religion who studies how Disney itself functions as a kind of religion. Early in the pandemic, Rob Kenney thought a series of “how-to” videos might be of some use to people who lacked a father figure in their lives. Two-and-a-half years later, he finds himself the adopted internet dad to some four-million kids.