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The New Yorker piece on the Door is now online — not at the New Yorker’s site but at The Door’s.

Meanwhile, subscribers to the Door’s e-newsletter now know what I’ve been dying to tell you for several months now. The Door, effective next month, is taking back its old name: The Wittenburg Door. That change is what prompted a tribute to the late Mike Yaconelli which I wrote and which will be included in the issue.

If you aren’t familiar with the history, Wittenberg, Germany, is where Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the cathedral door. The creators of the magazine accidentally misspelled the town “Wittenburg,” but left the misspelling in place, as a self-deprecating joke, after it was pointed out to them

Tags: Religious humor