Mike Wittmer

Category: Ethics

  • the bottom of the slippery slope

    It probably isn’t too productive to comment on the comments of “emergent” authors, as they have taken pains to make clear that they are no longer with us. As they might say, their centered set doesn’t overlap with our bounded set (which, of course, demonstrates that they too can’t avoid having a boundary). But in case there was…

  • homosexual hate speech

    The current advertisement banner of the New York Times website reads, “Dan Savage sends hope to millions of bullied teens.” If you click on the banner, you will watch a short encouragement to gay teenagers that “It gets better.” They may feel picked on and bullied around school, but if they just hang on they’ll…

  • the canary

    Here’s my latest entry for Our Daily Journey. Feel free to give me any constructive feedback you may have before I turn it in at the end of the week.          A friend of mine left his wife and three children. Although he knows better—he was a seminary professor—he continues to lie to his family and…

  • the gospel and multi-culturalism

    The new issue of the Calvin Seminary Forum has an intriguing dialogue among Calvin faculty about the Christian Reformed Church’s impending vote (2012) on whether to adopt the Belhar Confession as a fourth confession of faith (alongside the Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism, and the Canons of Dort). The United Reforming Church in Southern Africa, a…

  • miners and mistresses

    What does it say about the state of marriage today when an accidental sampling of Chilean miners turns up so many with mistresses and children on the side?  According to the London Telegraph, at least five wives so far have encountered mistresses who want a stake of the financial windfall coming their lovers’ way.  One…

  • listen

    I have been meaning to blog more on faith and science, but I have been stuck on other tasks first.  In the meantime I heard about this illustration that seemed perfect for Our Daily Journey.  I have embedded links to the video and the Washington Post article in case any of you may want to use…

  • everything you knew about marriage is wrong

    Al Mohler has posted an article on the Proposition 8 ruling that will make you want to move to Canada, except that they are even further down the road on this issue than we are.  A couple of quotes from the judge’s ruling are simply astounding: “Religious beliefs that gay and lesbian relationships are sinful or…

  • can three lesbians marry?

    A California judge tonight “refudiated” proposition 8 in California.  There will be much commentary in the news tomorrow, but three initial items struck me as significant. 1.  The judge said that “Proposition 8 harms the state’s interest in equality, because it mandates that men and women be treated differently based only on antiquated and discredited notions…

  • our modern sin

    Koinonia asked me to comment on Anne Rice’s renouncement of her church, and I thought I might post it here in the hopes that my friends might catch any glaring problems before it goes up there! Anne Rice has left the church again.  Raised in “an old fashioned, strict Roman Catholic” home, Anne left the church…

  • is this offensive?

    You know how certain verses you’ve read many times suddenly smack you upside the head?  I just read this from Paul:  “If anyone does not love the Lord–a curse be on him.  Come, O Lord!” (1 Cor. 16:22).  I suspect that many evangelical Christians would be embarrassed by such talk, and if you told them that…