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EntertainmentMr. Bennet’s dad jokes are too much
Dads like to be funny, and there’s no question about it but that Mr. Bennet – from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice – is a…
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AssortedThat which bubbles up to the surface
The Reformed theologian R.C. Sproul, (1939-2017), is quoted as saying: “… laughter is precisely the kind of thing that will always confound scientists because it…
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Recent ArticlesA serious problem
As a mental health therapist, I once attended a workshop on developing and maintaining healthy attachments between parents and their children. The presenter’s information was…
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Book ReviewsTeam Burger Shed
by Tavin Dillard 2024 / 188 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Tavin Dillard is of an indeterminate age (he looks mid-30s, but gets around on a bike,…
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Book ReviewsMooses with Bazookas
by S.D. Smith 2023 / 160 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT I liked this book so much that right after I finished it, I read it again,…
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HumorSay what? Insights from the “Devil’s Dictionary”
Ambrose Bierce (1842- circa 1914) was an American satirist best known for his Devil’s Dictionary. In it he sought to “improve” on Noah Webster’s famous…
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HumorWhat is humor?
What is humor? It seems a simple question, with a very obvious answer: humor is whatever makes us laugh or smile. But then what of…
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HumorHumor and the life of faith
“And I knew there could be laughter On the secret face of God” – G. K. Chesterton ***** Nothing is quite so ironic as to…
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Gender roles#chairchallenge highlights male/female divide
We live in a curious age in which the self-evident isn’t. So if you have a friend muddled about whether men and women are different,…
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HumorComedy as a calling
Andrew Bright is a professional comedian and a professing Christian, and while that’s not as rare as the albino spotted zebra, comedic Christians are hard…
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HumorOde to hurt…or why my tolerant nature can’t stand your opinions
I’m hurting I am, and I want you to know, That the pain I am feeling, isn’t likely to go. I’m hurting I am, it’s…
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HumorTearing down tyranny, one joke a time…
November 9 marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which, for 28 years, divided socialist East Germany from the free West. To…
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NewsMale rapper “breaks” women’s weightlifting record
For a world increasingly confused about gender, February was an illuminating month with not one, but two well-publicized examples of how it is God, and…
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NewsScottish minister charges police with hate for their hate crime campaign
The Scottish government and Scottish police have joined together under the banner “One Scotland” to campaign against hate crimes using videos and a variety of billboards….
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AssortedElection
Nobody would tell who had written the naughty word inside the door of the boys’ toilet. The six girls in our one-room country school were…
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HumorSimply and truly
There once was a man whose parents had given him the highly unusual name of “Amazing” when he was born. They gave him the name…
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MagazineDec 2014 issue
WHAT’S INSIDE: Humor and the life of faith / Comedy as a calling / Was there death before the Fall into Sin? / The theology…
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Being the ChurchLaughter in the pews
My mother has a wise saying, one of many I might add, that if you go to church faithfully, you’ll experience lots of interesting things….