For years, Hollywood has presented stories based on the bible as epic, larger-than-life events. They’ve often been overly serious, occasionally dull, and rarely relatable. (Anyone remember the NBC ...

Periodically, this time of the year, I write a column about the Second Sunday in the Easter season. Also known as “Bright” or “Laughter” Sunday, its observance goes back to the days of the early ...

Five preachers, a rabbi and an imam walked into a local church. Sounds like the beginning of a well-worn joke, right? This was no gag, though. The spiritual leaders who recently gathered at Crossings ...

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 ...

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 ...

EAST MOLINE -- Ever wonder how many Presbyterians it takes to change a light bulb. Head over to First Presbyterian Church, at 777 25th Ave., East Moline, Sunday and let the Rev. Rebecca Sherwood tell ...

— First United Methodist Church of Glassboro, Academy and New streets, Holy Humor Sunday returns at the 8:30 and 11 a.m. services. In 1990, artist Jack Jewell painted a portrait of Jesus laughing. It ...

Last spring Dr. Martin Niemöller, one-time U-boat officer, pastor of Berlin-Dahlem’s swank Jesus Christus Kirche and leader of the German Confessional Church, was incarcerated in the Sachsenhausen ...