Mike Wittmer

Category: Politics

  • witch hunt

    I am reluctant to link to these two stories, because they may push us into an angry martyr complex. So please don’t take this as merely more evidence that the gospel is unpopular–as if that’s a surprise–but as a heads-up on the double standard we are dealing with. Terry Mattingly explains that Chick-Fil-A president Dan Cathy…

  • game on

    Philip Ryken, the president of Wheaton College, and John Garvey, the president of The Catholic University of America, wrote an editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal which states they are suing Health and Human Services for the religious freedom not to pay for insurance which covers the “morning after” pill (and contraception, in the Catholics’…

  • it gets better?

    So many people have commented so well on the gay marriage uproar last week that I don’t have much to add, but I wanted to say two things. 1. Questioning motives is often a smokescreen. Last week the left repeatedly said that conservatives are against gay marriage because we’re angry and afraid of what gay…

  • the brotherhood of man

    I watched five minutes of the interminable Super Bowl pregame show, but the brief segment I saw included the cast of several NBC shows performing a Broadway song and dance called “The Brotherhood of Man.” In our day of gender inclusivity, when Bible translators worry that masculine pronouns might offend female readers, when professors tell…

  • Arab Spring

    Tomorrow my Apologetics class is going to examine Islam, so today we went to Calvin’s January Series to hear Rezla Aslan speak on “The Future of the New Middle East.” Aslan is the Iranian-born author of No god but God, and while I’m pretty sure he doesn’t share my views on many topics, he is…

  • the church in China

    If you live in Grand Rapids and don’t have tickets to Taylor Swift, consider coming out to Baker Book House tonight at 7:00, when I’ll be speaking on Christ Alone. I was fascinated by the cover story of the current Books and Culture, entitled “A Critique of All Religions:  Chinese Intellectuals and the Church.” David…

  • it’s here

    Many of us have been saying for some time that the normalization of homosexual marriage will inevitably open the door to the state’s acceptance of polygamy. Proponents of gay marriage typically scoff and say we’re silly for making such a slippery slope argument. Well, not anymore. In an op-ed in today’s New York Times, Jonathan…

  • where are the grown-ups?

    Last night, just before the close of a fine band concert, the band director told us all to write petitions to tell “Governor Snyder to stop stealing from our schools.” Besides being entirely inappropriate–is that how our school leaders teach their students to respect authority?–it was yet another example of adults in Michigan behaving like children.…

  • the tax man cometh

    I’m in the middle of an intense four week writing assignment–more on that later–so I haven’t had time to blog as much as I’d like. But in case you missed it, Christianity Today has an interesting article on the precarious position of the ministerial housing allowance. Senator Charles Grassley’s investigation of the alleged improprieties of televangelists has…

  • 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…