The Wittenburg Door

The Wittenburg Door, sometimes just The Door, is a magazine for satire and humor from the field of theology and Christianity. It is published six times a year published by the Trinity Foundation located in Dallas, Texas.

The magazine began in 1971 in San Diego, California as The Wittenburg Door. The name alludes to the stop of the 95 theses of Martin Luther in the Castle Church in Wittenberg. The accidental misspelling was retained after printing. Founder was the priest and journalist Mike Yaconelli. The magazine turned initially in the style of a school newspaper, especially to young people in evangelical environment and was used in many Christian lending libraries.

Some articles and interviews were nationally known and also separately published in book form. Precisely because of the specific target group, it was partly, Harry Shearer, Arianna Huffington, Al Sharpton and Steve Allen to win for interviews. An unusually personal interview with Rush Limbaugh, as well as discussions with Nick Page and Jerry B. Jenkins became known. As book publishing Robert Darden was magazine articles, among others, under the titles On the Eighth Day God Laughed and The Door Interviews: Out Take Two. Becky Garrison's book Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church presents satirical analysis of the inter-religious debates after the presidential election in the United States in 2004 from the magazine together.

1996 bought the Trinity Foundation, the owner of rights. In the meantime, other religions were treated satirically. Since 2007, the magazine is facing mainly Christian themes again under the direction of the satirist John Irving Bloom.

Are known in particular categories, such as the theologian of the year, who received, among other things Tamara Faye Messner and Woody Allen.