Mike Wittmer

Tag: Emergent Church

  • the beginning of the end

    I’m sorry that I’ve been absent from my own blog for the past three days.  I had a most enjoyable time speaking in chapels and classes at my alma mater, Cedarville University.  I wish everyone could have the opportunity to return to their college 20 years after graduation, to reconnect with former profs and meet…

  • conversation with Kevin

    Kevin: I will try not to repeat the questions and comments from Bill and Doug, which I agree with, but will attempt to respond to your points and concerns with a few observations.  Thanks again for indulging us and our questions.  Your responses have helped me to better appreciate your perspective and what you heard in…

  • my question answered

    Yesterday Kevin Corcoran, a philosophy professor at Calvin College, kindly responded to my previous post about my unanswered question at the Symposium of Worship’s Emergent panel.  I think that his long and thoughtful response deserves its own page rather than to be buried in the comments section, so I am reposting it here, along with…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…