Agony and hilarity, said Norman MacLean, are both necessary for
salvation. We Christians seem to know a lot about the agony part,
but what about hilarity? Why do we have to remind ourselves so
often that the Bible is full of funny and ridiculous stories and
situations? Why do so few of the pictures we ve drawn of Jesus show
him laughing? Because we ve forgotten the redemptive power of
humor, that s why. In Jesus Laughed, Robert Darden senior editor of
The Wittenburg Door, the world s oldest, largest, and pretty much
only religious satire magazine draws on his years of experience
deflating religious pomposity and making the faithful laugh to show
why humor is so central to the faith, and how to make it a big part
of your daily walk with God.
Click here to listen to Terri Gross's interview with Robert
Darden on NPR's Fresh Air about the Black Gospel Music Restoration
Project. Darden runs the project at Baylor University where he is a
journalism professor. The purpose of the project is to identify,
acquire, preserve, record, and catalogue the most at-risk music
from the black gospel music tradition, primarily between 1945 and
1970.
Robert Darden is Associate Professor of Journalism at Baylor
University in Waco, Texas. He served for 12 years as Gospel Music
Editor for Billboard magazine, and since 1988 has been Senior
Editor of The Wittenburg Door, the world s oldest, largest, and
pretty much only religious satire magazine. He is the author of
more than 25 books, including the definitive People Get Ready A New
History of Black Gospel Music, which has been featured on National
Public Radio, and Reluctant Prophets and Clueless Disciples, also
published by Abingdon Press."
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