Social Justice Comedy

Comedy of the Best Kind

Comedy of the Best Kind

          Among other things, the gospels teach us the places and people we are most prejudiced against -- the places we put our greatest, most unreasonable fear and animus -- are also the places ripe for comedy of the best kind.

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Labor Party!

Labor Party!

May 1 is certainly an appropriate time to lift up a biblical account that is all about procreation, fertility, labor and…labor.  Some thoughts on the story, and comedy, of "The Hebrew Midwives", at Exodus 1:8-22.

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Pussy Riot Palm Procession

Pussy Riot Palm Procession

A modern "seriously playful" counterpart to what Jesus was up to, for your consideration, as we enter Holy Week 2014....

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Engaging the Powers Engagingly

Engaging 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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