By Jean Caffey Lyles. Originally published in the April/May 1983 print edition of the Wittenburg Door, #72. I think there are a few different things we can take from this. Much of Fred’s behavior is now de facto among both feminists and people who are not anti-feminist; in fact, some of what he does (like the use of “his/her”) is now outdated. So we can approach this with a “look how far we’ve come / look how little it took to seem radical back then” lens. But while the details look different now 40 years later, the broad point remains … Continue reading From the Archives of the Wittenburg Door: Macho Feminism

The death of Ole Anthony (I wrote about him a while ago in the OT and PT) got me thinking about The Wittenburg Door – an amateurish, defunct magazine that influenced both my religious beliefs and my lack thereof in ways that can’t be calculated. I found out recently that their extensive catalog is going to be made available digitally soon, and with that in mind, I’d like to share some of the Door’s best work from the last several decades. A brief idea of what this magazine was: it was named after the church door in Germany to which … Continue reading From the Archives of the Wittenburg Door: How to Spend Fifteen Million Dollars