Mike Wittmer

Category: Emergent Church

  • My ETS handout

    Since some of you asked, here is the handout for my ETS paper, which will give the general sense of my talk.                                         Machen on McLaren:  A New Kind of Liberal? Michael Wittmer                                                                          Evangelical Theological Society Grand Rapids Theological Seminary                                                              November 20, 2008   Michael Wittmer, Don’t Stop Believing:  Why Living Like Jesus…

  • ETS memories

    I just returned from Providence, and though I have more than I can share and not enough time to say it–as there is a stack of papers and writing projects to attend to, here are some personal highlights. 1. Papers–heard a very good one on the latent universalism in Brian McLaren and (I forget his first…

  • Response to Rollins in Grand Rapids

    Here is a short response I wrote over the weekend to the Rollins article posted below.  The religion editor of the GR Press said that he is inclined to run it as a guest editorial, so I am hopeful.  Any comments or suggestions before it runs? Near the end I ask why Rollins was invited…

  • Peter Rollins in Grand Rapids

    I know I said that I would be off for a week for the ETS conference, but my morning newspaper had this article on Peter Rollins.  You can read it at http://www.mlive.com/grpress/lifestyles/index.ssf/2008/11/community_offers_christianity.html.  I am contemplating a guest editorial  response in the paper, which I may post next week for your feedback.  For now, what do you think…

  • what are the weaknesses of emergent?

    I will be gone next week to the Evangelical Theological Society meeting in Rhode Island, so I may not be able to get to this blog after Monday (if I don’t take my computer then I can stuff more books in my carry-on without paying extra to check a bag).  Here is an abbreviated synopsis…

  • what do you like about emergent?

    My new book, Don’t Stop Believing:  Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough, just arrived.  I drove to Zondervan’s warehouse on Friday and picked up over a thousand copies for myself and then spent the weekend reading through them.  The first thirty or so were great, the next twenty just seemed like more of the…

  • Target Audience

    Here is a blogger who represents my target audience for my soon to be released, “Don’t Stop Believing:  Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough”  If you have a moment, read his post, my initial response, and his reply.  Judging from his review, how successful do you think I will be in reaching people like…

  • Emergent Church

    Here are a couple of articles which I recently published on the Emergent church.  The first is a more popular essay in the Torch, Cedarville University’s (my alma mater) magazine.  The whole magazine is well done, and my entry begins on p. 8.  Read it here:  http://www.cedarville.edu/departments/marketing/publicrelations/pdf/torch/torch_f2008.pdf I also wrote a more scholarly treatment in Western…