Mike Wittmer

Category: Christian Worldview

  • we don’t discriminate, except when we do

    Every job posting and even the cover of our seminary catalogue states that “Cornerstone University does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, sex, age or disability in any of its policies and programs.”  This important statement is enforced by our nation’s courts.  Should we ever sin by discriminating “on the basis of…

  • mile high

    I’m in Denver for the Gospel Rescue Missions national conference, and last night I missed the first half of the free-throw shooting contest in Orlando to attend the plenary talk by Shane Claiborne.  Shane was in the Christian news last year when my alma mater disinvited him (not his fault), so I was interested to…

  • trick or tweet

    That last post was what I would have tweeted if I had a Twitter account, but I don’t and so it’s not.  But in this issue of Time magazine there is an article about churches that encourage their members to tweet during the service (p. 51-52).  It may also be available on-line, but with my…

  • yeah, yeah, yeah

    This lies outside my area of expertise (but not my pay-grade), so unlike my researched rants on Cleveland sports, I’m open to being wrong here.  But has anyone else noticed the sudden rise of a new locution in the English language?  I speak of the phrase, “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” not its drawn out form which…

  • adoption option

    Last weekend I watched Slumdog Millionaire on Saturday, learned about my church’s new ministry to orphans on Sunday, and began reading Russell Moore’s new book, Adopted for Life, on Monday.  So I’ve been thinking a lot about adoption this week.  Should Christian families seek to adopt a child?  Are we being selfish if we don’t?…

  • an evangelical Esther?

    I have been offline for the past week, grading a couple hundred final exams and papers.  It’s exhilarating, and there are always a few surprises.  For instance, in Systematic Theology 2 I emphasized that nobody believes anymore that humans are composed of three distinct parts, body, soul, and spirit, except perhaps in some poorly rated…

  • my favorite worship song

    Many of you know that the church needs new music that is theologically sound (i.e., non-Platonic) and musically interesting.  I first sang this song at Tullian Tchividian’s church’s men’s retreat last September.  I loved it then, and was reminded of it when we sang it again at the women’s retreat last week.  And now that…

  • the swine flu and you

    Here’s hoping it doesn’t come to this, but Martin Luther offers some timely advice in his open letter, Whether One May Flee From a Deadly Plague.  The Bubonic Plague came to Wittenberg in 1527, and Luther responded by closing the university and sending his students home.    When concerned citizens asked how Christians should act…

  • my centered-bounded set

    I ran into it again last week, and I’m hearing it often enough now that I think it deserves a response.  Many leaders are claiming that we who believe in the importance of the inerrancy of Scripture, the virgin birth, and the need to believe in Jesus are suffering from bounded set thinking.  Our problem…

  • unfashionable is in

    Given the cover story of last week’s Newsweek, “The Decline and Fall of Christian America,” we Americans who believe in Jesus can expect to fall increasingly out of step with our culture.  Life was somewhat different in the 1950’s, when “under God” was added to the pledge of allegiance and “in God we trust” was…