Santa Stranglings...

Wittenburg Door #214

In this issue:

Interviews: Rolf Potts and Phyllis Tickle

Also featuring articles such as:

"They'll Know We are Christians by Our Stuff"
The Exegete: Harmonizing the Gospels for Dummies
Vision Statements You're Not Likely to See
Jesus Weary of Being Lifted Higher
Goin' Straight: Notes from Ted Haggard's Support Group
St. Christopher Relieved from Duty
A James Dobson Emergency Alert: The Newest Threat to American Families
Reading Lolita at Liberty University

and more. The Last Word: Santa, Yule, and Me

Prince of the Air

From this issue:

• Interviews of Rob Bell and N.T. Wright
  
  
• Detective Ace of the Air! Another Kenneth Copeland Mystery
  
  
• Your Chosen People's Management Plan
  
  
• Church Struggles in Wake of Potluck Scandal
  
  
• The Shocking Truth About Catholics: They Can't Sing
  
  
• NEW! The Submergent Church!
  
  
• Midwestern Christian Girl Still Single at 22
  
  
• Retread Records' Shout to the Lord—Extreme Edition
  
  
• Thomas Nelson Publishing: A Division of Globex® Applied Weapons Systems, Inc.
  
  
• LaHaye and Liberace

and...like...more!

Bringing Prosperity?

Interviews: Brian McLaren and Stephen Mansfield (author of The Faith Of George W. Bush). "Interview": John Hagee

Also includes: James Dobson Teaches Luke 14:26, Inelegant Design Developments, Failed Christian Board Games, The Emergent's Creed, Jesus' Bumper Stickers, Neo-Fundamentalists at Your Door, and Bob Larson's Latest: HELP SAVE ANNA NICOLE SMITH'S BABY!. Much more, of course.

Loser of the Month: W.W. Norton & Company and author David Wallis, Last Word: The New Jerusalem

The Poor You Shall Have With You Always

Interviews: Ron Hall and Denver Moore, Jimmy Dorrell, Shaine Claiborne, and apparently Superman.

Also featuring Jesus Was A Homeless Bum, Solving America's Quaker Joke Shortage ..., The Next Big Evangelical Scandal, Men's Retreat Shocker!, Preacher's Kids Anonymous, Off-Message Church Marketing, and more. The Last Word: Indiscriminate Compassion.

And I'm Almost 35 Years Too!

Featuring: interviews of Moby(!), Bruce Cockburn(!!) and Simon Conway Morris.

Also includes such things as "Sitting on the Promises", Minutes of the February Meeting of the Choir Subcommittee of the Music Committee of the First Community Church, "My Favorite Things", Biblical Child Care Centers, The Wittenburg Door Review of Bishop John Shelby Spong's Jesus: The Meandering Scholar, Holy Dough Tithe Lottery, What's Your Church Class?, and of course, Worship Choruses Almost Anyone Can Sing.

The Last Word reflects on "35, but who's counting?"

Happy 35th, Wittenburg Door!

Polluted Epiphany

Features an interview of David James Duncan.

Also featuring: The NOAH Conference, Christianity Today's Personal Ads: Christians Seeking Churches, Looking for the Best Christian on TV, Why the Devil Wears Prada, CleanFlicks Presents: The Song of Solomon, Choose Your Own Doctrine Study Bible, The Apostle's Creed (2007 Version), How to Change Your Church Persona, Ask the Ecumenical, and more!

The Last Word talks about Remedial Wisdom 101.

A Wittenburg Christmas

With A Wittenburg Christmas: Shakespeare's Lost Pageant, Donnie Wildmon Finds Evil in TV Commercials, The Gospel of Caiaphas, Spiritual To-Do Lists, Satan's MySpace Page, and so much more.

Also features interviews of Will Campbell and Cathleen Falsani, as well as "interviews" of The Veggies of Veggie Tales, Warren Jeffs and Rev. Raymond L. Chrissler. The Last Word is about mocking lips.

Who Would Jesus Exclude?

Features interviews of Albert J. Reyes, Becky Garrison and Stanley Hauerwas(!). Also includes the Perfect Bible Translation, the Piety Meter, Church Planting Through Division, Snake Oil Salesmen on a Plane!, Jan Crouch's Eyes...and so much more. The Last Word wonders what bothers opponents of immigration.