Mike Wittmer

What I think. What I know. What I think I know.

  • Christians make the best lovers

    Next week I am guest blogging every day on Zondervan’s koinonia blog (so stop by and make a comment if you’d like).  I just composed this one this morning, and before I send it in I thought I’d invite any helpful feedback that you might have.  Here it is. I want to try out a…

  • emergent christians and sexual ethics

    Here is a recent blog post from Tony Jones, the director of Emergent Village.  Any thoughts on his newfound view?  The post can be accessed at http://blog.beliefnet.com/tonyjones/2008/11/same-sex-marriage-blogalogue-h.html.

  • 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…

  • Gone Fishing–at ETS

    I’ll be gone for the rest of this week, fishing for friends, new books, and theological insights at the annual Evangelical Theological Society in Providence, Rhode Island.  So if you write a comment this week, it won’t be posted until after the Ohio State-Michigan blowout on Saturday.  Meet me here for the post-game celebration.

  • 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 Your Base

    My traditional, conservative church rightly warns against the rising tide of liberalism in evangelical churches and reminds us that we must believe something to be saved.  Across town, there is a left-leaning church (determined by the fact that “Yes, We Can” bumper stickers outnumber the Christian fish symbol on cars in the parking lot) that…