Elizabeth's leaping womb and Mary's words of joy are especially enhanced when SNL's Sprockets (or a Sprockets-inspired group of seminarians) provide the interp!
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Performance of Scripture
The 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....
Read MoreAscen-shenanigans!
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The Rev. "Laughing Laura" Gentry and I assembled Ascension Day worship last Sunday.... 'nuff said!
Read MoreI Love to Eat The Story
How many ways can our Easter basket loaded with candy help us remember what the Bible says?
Read MoreFor God So 'Ugh'd' the World....
Did Jesus want us to find comedy in his crucifixion?
Read MoreSilliness and Sacrifice
There was a time when the Bible (even "The Sacrifice of Isaac") was presented as something like a cross between the Obergammergau's Passion Play and Monty Python's Flying Circus....
Read MoreOriginal (and Fun!) Easter Sermon
The fourth century "Paschal Homily" of St. John Chrysostom, our earliest Easter sermon, is a blast! (Pacifistically speaking, of course....)
Read MorePussy Riot Palm Procession
A modern "seriously playful" counterpart to what Jesus was up to, for your consideration, as we enter Holy Week 2014....
Read MoreHebrew Camp!
OMG is it Halloween? A Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco? Animal House Live? No, it's Church! Actually, it's Synagogue....
Read MoreEngaging the Powers Engagingly
My favorite theologian, Walter Wink, most entertainingly demonstrates how Jesus taught his followers to be peacemakers, emerging God's Realm of justice, harmony and joy for all through practical, effective, and hilariously clever acts of intentional non-violence.
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