The story behind The Wittenburg Door

The Lexington Herald-Leader has an interesting article. The guy who runs the Wittenburg Door, "the world's pretty much only religious satire magazine," sounds quite remarkable. He has a private detective license and goes around checking up on and exposing corrupt televangelists. He and his supporters, under the auspices of the 'Trinity Foundation', live simply (he gets food, board and $55/wk), run house churches and take in the homeless (some of whom ended up on the streets after giving money to televangelists). He has no savings account, no private health insurance and no retirement plan. He's even turned down televangelists' offers of $5,000,000 cash to 'disappear'.

The Door was apparently banned from "pretty much every church bookstore in the free world" after naming Beavis and Butthead 'theologians of the decade' and once published a Playboy-style centrefold using a photo of a televangelist's bum that they found in his trash can, listing his purported measurements and turn-ons: "feet tickling, long sermons, chastisement followed by gentle touch."

Nevertheless they're theologically quite conservative. Their statement of faith would do any Southern Baptist proud.

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