Heard any good jokes lately? Early Christians customarily celebrated Easter with joy, laughter and lots of jokes. Someone once said that humor is our response to seeing the proud lord of death step on a banana peel. That proud lord of death (Satan) thought he
It’s coming. The sun’s daily rise and set prompts the inexorable turn of calendar pages and guarantees it. This Sept. 11 marks 10 years since the day the world stood still as 19 terrorists commandeered four huge jets and flew them into New York
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship looked back in laughter and forward in hope at a celebration banquet marking its 20th anniversary June 22.
The Christian faith has a powerful joke — Easter. Early church theologians proclaimed that it represented "God's supreme joke played on death" and used the phrase Risus paschalis, "the Easter laugh." Over the centuries, the week after Easter became associated with "days of joy and
Something that strikes one person as funny—even something heard at church—may seem inappropriate to another. How can believers strike a balance as they use humor and laughter in ministry?
“Laughter is not primarily about humor, but about social relationships.” Dr. Robert Provine“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”AnonymousResearchers are finding that of the many health benefits of laughter, perhaps its most beneficial by-product is the social support it stimulates.When God created us He made
By Frank Fain “Even the gods love jokes.” — Plato In 1976 the New England Journal of Medicine published an article by Norman Cousins on the benefits of humor and laughter in the healing process.