Ethics

Michigan's Street Preacher

By Ed Brayton

The Grand Rapids Press has an article about Michael Woroniecki, a street preacher who was at the Michigan State- Notre Dame football game this past weekend. I never knew his name before but I've run into him a few times. The first time I ran into him was in 1984, the summer before my senior year in high school, when he was preaching outside of a Yes concert that I was going to with my two best friends.

Coincidentally, we were all Christians at the time, but we didn't see anything wrong with going to a rock concert. And we actually argued with the guy outside the place (it was at an outdoor arena and he was standing there with this huge sign, about 25 feet tall, condemning us all to hell). I still remember that he kept repeating to us that we couldn't be real Christians and go to a rock concert - "Be you hot or be you cold, else I will spew you out of my mouth."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 27, 2008 (boomark / email).