Category: Christian Worldview
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support the troops
A week ago I reviewed the new film, Old-Fashioned. I mentioned that while the movie wasn’t perfect, it was provocative, deeply satisfying, and boasted high production values. I don’t see a lot of movies, but this one seemed as good, if not better, than most of what comes out of Hollywood today. So I was…
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I can’t get no satisfaction
Yesterday I received the new edition of Christian Scholar’s Review, and I immediately read the article by Scott Waalkes, “Rethinking Work as Vocation: From Protestant Advice to Gospel Corrective” (Winter, 2015, p. 135-53). I was interested because not only does Waalkes teach at Malone University, near my hometown, but his article promised to correct the…
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Old Fashioned
In Culture-Making, Andy Crouch wrote that Christians should go beyond critiquing and copying culture and start creating some. Last night I viewed an excellent example of what he meant. Christians (and non-Christians too) should speak out against the violence against women in Fifty Shades of Gray, but wouldn’t it be great if we had an…
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fully God, fully humor?
Yesterday I did an interview that started with our need as “worldly saints” to enjoy the pleasures of earth, ran forward on the fact that Jesus is fully human, then spun sideways on whether or not Jesus has a sense of humor. The host was sure that he does. He said he could imagine Jesus…
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becoming worldly saints
Eleven years ago I published my first book, Heaven Is a Place on Earth. It didn’t move the needle quite as much as N. T. Wright’s, Surprised by Hope, which came out four years later, but it seemed to make some impact in the evangelical world and brought renewed interest in Belinda Carlisle. I proudly…
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sleepless in seattle
I still can’t believe the Seahawks lost that game. Belichek kept his timeouts in his pocket while the clock wound down, so the Patriots would have no time left after Marshawn Lynch picked up one yard in two or three tries. I’m not excusing it, but I understand why Seattle’s players started punching Patriots in…
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new heaven and earth
I recommend J. Richard Middleton’s new book, A New Heaven and a New Earth, which is an encyclopedic resource on this topic. Middleton explains biblically and theologically why our final end is down here rather than up there, and makes this provocative statement that I happen to agree with. “Therefore, for reasons exegetical, theological, and…
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the comedy of bestiality
I don’t want to say much about this because it’s so perverse, but the latest sign that our culture has lost its sexual mind comes from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (January 9, 2015). I will provide a link to the video for the sake of documentation, though I would recommend you not watch…
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small ships
The header of this blog is a storm cloud over the Sea of Galilee. I shot it a couple weeks ago from Mount Arbel, where Jesus may have climbed when he went to pray. Like everyone else, I was surprised by the small size of the Sea of Galilee. It’s the size of one of…
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What’s Up With Heaven?
I wrote a post today for The Gospel Coalition. You can leave comments here, there, or on Facebook. If this topic interests you, you can learn more at TGC’s national conference in April or by reading Becoming Worldly Saints.
Mike Wittmer 