The Wittenburg Door
The Wittenburg Door , sometimes just The Door , is a magazine for satire and humor related to theology and Christianity. It is published six times a year by the Trinity Foundation based in Dallas, Texas.
The magazine began in 1971 in San Diego, California as The Wittenburg Door . The name alludes to the attack of Martin Luther's 95 theses on the castle church in Wittenberg. The unintentional misspelling was retained after going to press. The founder was the pastor and journalist Mike Yaconelli . The magazine was initially aimed at young people in the evangelical environment in the style of a school newspaper and was distributed in many Christian lending libraries.
Some articles and interviews became known nationwide and also published separately in book form. Precisely because of the specific target group, it was possible to win over Harry Shearer , Arianna Huffington , Al Sharpton and Steve Allen for interviews. An unusually personal interview with Rush Limbaugh as well as conversations with Nick Page and Jerry B. Jenkins became known . As book publications, Robert Darden published magazine articles under the titles On the Eighth Day God Laughed and The Door Interviews: Take Two . Becky Garrison's book Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church compiles satirical analyzes of the interfaith debates after the 2004 US presidential election .
In 1996 the Trinity Foundation bought the ownership rights. In the meantime, other religions have also been treated satirically. Since 2007, under the direction of the satirist John Irving Bloom, the magazine has again focused primarily on Christian topics.
Rubrics such as Theologian of the Year, which include Tamara Faye Messner and Woody Allen, are particularly well-known .
Individual evidence
- ^ Encyclopedia of evangelicalism, author Randall Herbert Balmer, Westminster Verlag John Knox Press, 2002 ISBN 0664224091