The latest issue of the very loosely-affiliated Lutheran "Mad" magazine, Wittenburg Door (Issue #203, January/February 2006), carries an article by Mathew Pickett entitled, "Americans Dismayed as Pope Remains Catholic." Flippin' hilarious -- sort of like The Onion with a Lutheran twist.
I'm pleased the Door is back in circulation again. Decades ago, I remember taking a subscription during the original run of the magazine. Several issues I fondly remember. One featured a front cover with a picture of Jerry Falwell on it and a banner reading "We [HEART] Fundies!" Another had a picture of a group of evangelicals sitting in a circle in a hot tub with Bibles to the side, hands folded, heads bowed in prayer, and something about the new evangelical "hot tub religion" (yeah, there's an evangelical version of that)! Another had a serious interview with Garrison Keillor, host of the show "Prairie Home Companion." Yet another had an article on the cold war and a scenario of thermo-nuclear exchange with Russia and a map of the United States inside with "ground zero" at Wheaton College, Illinois, the home of America's flag ship Evangelical college and Billy Graham Center. What can I say? Tolle, lege!
[Hat tip to Sean Fagan]
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