The idea of religion can often seem serious like fire and brimstone, but it isn’t always a straight-face matter. Religion, and Christianity specifically, is full of joyful moments of laughter and ...

MASSILLON − The Book of Genesis includes the story of Abraham and Sarah, a childless, elderly couple who were promised by God that they would have a son. The very idea made Sarah laugh. Then arrived ...

Admittedly, the “religious humor” section of the bookshelf is markedly sparse. Yet that’s where you’ll find “Sin Bravely: A Memoir of Spiritual Disobedience” from comedy writer Maggie Rowe, a suburban ...

A Protestant minister, a Catholic priest, and a Jewish rabbi often appear together in a popular genre of jokes. And last week when a real minister, priest, and rabbi got together at the University of ...

God with a sense of humor? Jesus a stand-up comic? Laughter in the Bible? Sometimes it’s hard to see anything funny in religion, especially when the emphasis is on the thou-shalt-nots, hellfire and an ...

Ahno beat me to the punch in her blog, “” in writing about the Moors, the religion catering to those who, shall we say, tend to be opportunists. The Moors, religion, not ethnicity group, feel that ...

What’s so funny about religion? Publishers with new titles that lampoon the faithful hope a whole heaven of a lot. But they acknowledge that taking jokes about God, the cross, the Bible, sin and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

There are many things Evangelical Christians are good at, such as bake sales and talking to me on planes. They’re less adept at other things, such as comedy and fighting lions. Christians aren’t funny ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...