Mike Wittmer

Month: July 2012

  • chicken fight

    I have noticed that nearly every article on the Chick-Fil-A controversy mentions they serve delicious chicken sandwiches. This must have KFC wondering who might feign offense at them and fry up some of that free publicity (when even Billy Graham plans on observing Chick-Fil-A Wednesday, you know you’re on to something). This backhanded compliment seems…

  • witch hunt

    I am reluctant to link to these two stories, because they may push us into an angry martyr complex. So please don’t take this as merely more evidence that the gospel is unpopular–as if that’s a surprise–but as a heads-up on the double standard we are dealing with. Terry Mattingly explains that Chick-Fil-A president Dan Cathy…

  • unpopular

    There are so many firestorms on the Internet right now, it’s hard to know which ones to comment on and which ones are better to let burn themselves out. I thought of the Chick-Fil-A controversy yesterday when I came across what the Jews in Rome said to Paul:  “We want to hear what you believe, for the…

  • the dark knight

    In light of the horrific shooting in Aurora, Colorado last week, I decided it was time to watch the earlier Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” which just happened to be running on TNT over the weekend. I’m glad I did, because I hadn’t realized before how Batman was a Christ figure, bearing the guilt of…

  • game on

    Philip Ryken, the president of Wheaton College, and John Garvey, the president of The Catholic University of America, wrote an editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal which states they are suing Health and Human Services for the religious freedom not to pay for insurance which covers the “morning after” pill (and contraception, in the Catholics’…

  • backslap back

    Here’s another Our Daily Journey devotional that I offer for your constructive critique and/or use in your ministry. When I lived in China, I had an American friend who was radically committed to bringing the gospel to that nation. He mastered the Chinese language until even the Chinese thought he spoke exactly like them, with…

  • the empty arrogance of ingratitude

    The recent discovery of the Higgs-boson (a.k.a., the “God particle”) has led some to declare that physics is closer to proving that the universe could have brought something out of nothing without God’s help. They forget that the Higgs-boson is a something, so even if it is what causes the existence of mass, they still have…

  • blind sided

    There has been a bit of commentary on Lifeway Christian bookstores bowing to Southern Baptist pressure to stop selling the movie “The Blind Side” because it contains some profanity and racial slurs. The comments I have seen have been entirely critical, ranging from “This is what’s wrong with Christian bookstores” to “When will Christians stop…

  • by the powers of Brady Hoke

    Perhaps reading Peter Leithart’s Defending Constantine has over sensitized me to the merging of church and culture, but today’s Grand Rapids Press includes evidence for what we Buckeyes have long suspected:  Michigan football is a pagan religion. Apparently for $13,000 you can now walk out of the tunnel of the Big House and get married on…

  • fools rush in

    I just read Fools Rush In, a rollicking book by Carl Trueman, Professor of Historical Theology at Westminster Seminary. I recommend this book both for its content and for any writer who wants to develop his own voice (and who doesn’t?). This book is teeming with voice and entirely in the first person, which is…