In the Talmud, the Rabbis taught that humor is valuable in Torah study, as it warms people’s hearts and brings joy into the learning. For example, before starting to lecture or teach, Rabbah “would ...

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 ...

Just below the altar at Trinity United Methodist Church in Poquoson, the Rev. Roy P. White yuks it up in his sermon with the help of a snide ventriloquist’s dummy named Isaac. Kids crowd around him.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Jeremy McLellan has been labeled an extremist and accused of being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. But the white Catholic comedian from South Carolina ...