Mike Wittmer

Category: Christian Worldview

  • homosexual practice and temple prostitution

    First Things published this satirical-with-a-point response from one Lutheran group to their cousins in the ELCA who recently voted to accept actively gay clergy and gay marriage.  My thanks to Matthew Westerholm for bringing this to my attention.

  • good sex

    Piles of grading have prevented me from blogging this week, but I did manage to finish this racy devotional for Our Daily Journey. It seems particularly appropriate given the winter storm that is burying us. If you’re single and snowed in, there’s always Scrabble. read > Proverbs 5:1-23 Drink water from your own well—share your…

  • the end of innocence

    Meredith Baxter played the mother on the television show, Family Ties, and today on Today she announced that, after three marriages and five children, she had decided that she would try being a lesbian. There goes what’s left of my childhood.  I don’t know what’s true anymore.  I suppose that next I’ll learn that Alex…

  • eternal subordination in Barth

    Many complementarians ground their belief in male headship in the authority-submission structure of the Trinity.  As Paul writes, “the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God” (1 Cor. 11:3).  A growing number of egalitarians (e.g., Kevin Giles, Scot McKnight) accuse these…

  • a secular age

    Yesterday I started Charles Taylor’s massive book, A Secular Age (874 p.) which won the Templeton Prize in 2007.  Taylor’s story of how western society became secular is the sort of history I like—he paints with broad interpretive strokes which, while leaving plenty of room for quibbling over this detail or that, also enables us…

  • uh-oh, they’re on to us

    Interesting article in USA Today that is also a current blog topic at the New York Times.  Of course, the madness began the night that Tim Tebow passed over and ran through his fellow Christian Jim Tressel’s Ohio State defense.  I knew nothing good could come of that.

  • party like it’s 700 B.C.

    The big economic news last night and this morning was that numerous Wall Street executives of bailed out firms were going to pay large bonuses this year.  They justified this expense by saying that they have to compete with other firms to keep their good talent. I recognize that the following may be an overgeneralization—which…

  • is technology draining your soul?

    It has been awhile since I’ve posted one of my devotionals for Our Daily Journey, which means either that they have been so good that I didn’t need your feedback or so bad that I was too embarrassed to show you.  Here is one I just wrote about technology—there is a lot I had to…

  • ted kennedy knew better than the average evangelical

    In this week’s Time magazine, Mike Barnicle described Ted Kennedy’s fondness for sailing and his home in Hyannis Port (p. 42). “I love living here,” Kennedy said, “And I believe in the Resurrection.” I don’t know how much of the gospel Ted Kennedy understood (I mean that as a neutral statement), but he got the…

  • freshman foundation

    Our new provost at Cornerstone University, Rick Ostrander, has written an essential introduction to Christian education which every Christian young person should read.  Why College Matters to God explains the history of Christian higher education, analyzes such education through the worldview grid of creation, fall, and redemption, and closes with important thoughts on the integration…