Mike Wittmer

Category: Christian Worldview

  • it gets better?

    So many people have commented so well on the gay marriage uproar last week that I don’t have much to add, but I wanted to say two things. 1. Questioning motives is often a smokescreen. Last week the left repeatedly said that conservatives are against gay marriage because we’re angry and afraid of what gay…

  • the excluded male

    Yesterday my wife was leafing through the J.C. Penney flier that came in the Sunday paper, and she noticed something interesting. The flier featured four full page spreads of real women from diverse backgrounds:  an Indian mother and her daughters; a special needs girl with her mom, aunts, and grandmother; a single mom and her…

  • education is next

    David Brooks has a very interesting essay in today’s N.Y. Times. He asserts that the Internet will dramatically reshape education in the next few years, just as it is already doing with newspapers, magazines, and publishing. His position is balanced, explaining both the benefits and drawbacks to online education. One thing he didn’t mention was what…

  • rebuke thy brother, in 140 characters or less

    Right now I’m surfing the Internet while my students are taking their exam, because turnabout is fair play. I see that Christianity Today has a story about Andy Stanley’s disturbingly ambiguous sermon illustration on homosexuality, which ends with a link to Rick Warren tweeting at Al Mohler to apologize for the over-generalizing title of his…

  • the death of Charles Colson

    I wanted to write something about the life of Chuck Colson, but since those who knew him already have that covered, I thought I might say something about his death. Many will say that Colson’s death is his final victory, his graduation into glory, the highest achievement of his earthly life. Colson was a leading…

  • let my people go (to Florida)

    I spent my last two spring breaks enjoying my Mennonite relatives in Sarasota. I knew there was a story in this “Amish Las Vegas,” and apparently the New York Times agrees.

  • grand traverse

    My family returned from another fun weekend in Traverse City, probably the most beautiful place on earth you’ve never heard of. The area has vineyards, cherry and peach orchards, islands, peninsulas, sand dunes, Petoskey stones, and a vast, unsalted ocean. It’s Tuscany with water. We were saddened to see so many dead buds on the…

  • why would someone be a panentheist?

    This week I was chatting with Brian Mattson, a Th.M. student who is working in the new field of theological aesthetics. He is reading a lot of Hans Urs von Balthasar and David Bentley Hart. You actually don’t read the inscrutable Hart as much as you slip along in his general direction. I’m sure Hart…

  • seller beware

    Here is a draft for an Our Daily Journey devotional which I worked up over the weekend. I’m not real happy with the application (last paragraph). I’d like to also mention the positive aspects of buying (sometimes what we buy and sell is good), but ran out of room (the limit for the piece is…

  • death in evolution

    Last week I heard a professor from MIT say on television, “Three billion years ago, when we were reptiles….” The sentence struck me as very strange, stranger still because neither the host nor the audience batted an eye. Look at that sentence again, and then ponder John Collins’ remark that we must remember “how hard…