Sad news indeed!

I first discovered Mike's wonderful magazine in 1974 (two years after I became an Evangelical) and have been a big fan since.

May the Lord bless him, and comfort his family and friends.
John E | Homepage | 10.31.03 - 1:45 pm | #

May Mike rest in peace.

It also explains your ship lists to the left.......
JanJan | 10.31.03 - 1:55 pm | #

The Wittenburg Door was one of my favorites (when it was still that), though I started reading it about 1980.
Bill Cork | Homepage | 10.31.03 - 1:56 pm | #

It was an interesting zine in the early 80s, but it went from prophetic criticism to outright meanness and infidelity (or so it seemed to me). There is still plenty of kookiness to be lampooned, but the Church -is- Christ's bride and they lost that respect.
Steve | 10.31.03 - 4:15 pm | #

The Door was always interesting because of its combination of satire and investigative reporting (it occasionally was challenging to tell which is which).

The attitude of the Door was so helpful to me on my journey from Fundamentalism to Catholicism. (It is also the ONLY Christian magazine my Pagan husband ever even glances at.
Naomi | 10.31.03 - 4:45 pm | #

The Door was a breath of fresh air to me as a recovering fundamentalist. Requiescat in pace
Dunstan | 11.01.03 - 11:29 am | #

I knew I wasn't long for fundamentalism when my Bible College banned "The Wittenberg Door" from the school library in 1984. A mere 14 years later, I became Catholic. The wheels grind slow...

RIP, Mike.
Dave | Homepage | 11.01.03 - 11:41 am | #

Since leaving "The Door" to a strange group of Texas evangelicals, Mike has run a ministry called "Youth Specialties" which specializes in providing high-quality materials for evangelical youth groups (well, any church youth group, really). As a sometime youth group worker, I learned to appreciate not only the high quality of materials, but the strong sense of humor that ran through the ministry. It was clear that Mike never really lost the Door perspective, thank God. This guy liked kids enough to want to spend his life working with them.
RIP, Mike.
FastEddie | Homepage | 11.01.03 - 3:50 pm | #

How long until someone starts claiming that this was God's punishment for Mike's "crossing out passages from the Scofield Reference Bible" (his own words)? Sort of like "Allah destroyed the Space Shuttle because it contained six infidel Americans plus an Israeli fighter pilot".
Tom Round | 11.02.03 - 8:00 pm | #