After weeks of the somberness of Lent, the Easter season brings a return to celebration and joy. For some churches of varying denominations, the Sunday after Easter is Holy Humor Sunday, an effort to ...

As the Rev. Thomas Goodhue began his homily, the choir members at his Bay Shore church pulled out newspapers and held them in front of their faces as they read -- seemingly bored to death. Another ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — As the saying goes, if you want to make God laugh, make plans! However, we also know that life with God is not meant to be only somber and serious, and so God is not the only one ...

Pastor Howard Boles once used a deleted movie scene from the Monty Python troupe on Biblical shepherds in their fields as part of a sermon message. In the clip, as herdsmen are engrossed in passionate ...

Things were a little different at Opportunity Christian Church last Sunday. Smiley face balloons were everywhere, the sermon was delivered by a ventriloquist and the congregation rocked with laughter.

Ten or a dozen years ago,—the exact date is here immaterial,—an enterprising newspaper publisher conceived the idea of appealing to what is known as the American "sense of humor" by printing a ...

LONDON — Jewish comedy is serious business, says Jeremy Dauber in his scholarly book, “Jewish Comedy: A Serious History.” It is, he writes, a topic as vast as Jewish history itself. Dauber is the ...

Former President Jimmy Carter returned to his Sunday school class in good humor, even as he pondered his own mortality less than two weeks after fracturing his pelvis in a fall. Carter, 95, spoke for ...