Why Bathroom Blessings and other sacramental fun are the hope for the world.
Read More"Oh My LORD, Bless My Bowl!"
Thoughts on a Currently Very Popular Guided Meditation
in comedy, Aristotle's Poetics, Babylon, Food, Psalms
It's all over Facebook right now, and folks are loving it! So how completely inappropriate and un-Biblical is (or isn't) it? Let's take a look (breathing in, breathing out) through the Comic Lens....
Read MoreMore Horse Feathers of the Apocalypse (or, "God Destroys Those Who Destroy Themselves!")
On the Book of Revelation, pie fights, Wile E. Coyote and peace....
Read MoreThe Four Horse Feathers of the Apocalypse!
It's not exactly "Marx Brothers funny," but the Book of Revelation's account of the "Four Horsemen" who come to destroy the earth is pretty sharp and darkly humorous political satire, for life back in Imperial Roman times, and for today....
Read MoreBloody Fun Moviemaking!
One of my favorite creative endeavors ever was creating a spur-of-the moment 4-minute film on "the woman with the hemorrhage" with my 13-year old niece. What we came up with is fun, funky, and, I can't help think, pretty much what Jesus would do!
Read MoreSlumber Party!
Actually, it's not a party of all-night pillow fights and prank phone calls that Jesus seeks. Rather, it's several thousand zzzz's in the middle of the most terrible of storms. What crazy fun is that!
Read MoreThat #%&@*! Mustard Seed
We like to make every bratwurst extra special by lathering it with mustard laced with cranberries or champagne, but in the ancient world, the only good mustard plant was a dead mustard plant. And one that had NO SEEDS.
Read MoreStumped Speech!
As various cars, clown or otherwise, continue to fill with presidential candidates promising to save the country, restore morality and best align with the Divine Will, the prophet Samuel delivers a "stump speech" of a much different sort.
Read MoreJesus is My Ken Doll (Sex and the Bible - A Comic Perspective Pt. 4)
in Irony, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Holy Spirit
Sex is the one big arena (or maybe the biggest of many big arenas) where the popular question “What Would Jesus Do?” isn’t the least bit helpful. Ever ever ever ever. Ever.
Read MoreThe Mispronunciation is the Message! (The Comedy of Pentecost)
And you thought having to say "Zerubbubel" and "Maher-shalal-hash-baz" was hard, even though important....
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