Tag: Humor

Does this remind you of your Lenten Study Group?

“Now Heidegger, Nietzsche! Now, Levinas and Lyotard!

On Derrida, Foucault! On Butler and Baudrillard!

To each modern foundation, to each stucturalist wall!

Now deconstruct! Deconstruct! Deconstruct all!”

Is it wrong to be simultaneously devotional and hungry?

CNN did an excellent little story on Joe Alonso, head stone mason at Washington National Cathedral. Have a look. Then take a look at what Jay Leno did with it.

Can you say the word “breast” in a sermon? If so, how often? When trying to keep a congregation’s attention during a long homily, how much disrobing in the pulpit is too much?

Since we’re only a few hours from the commemoration of Francis of Assisi, here’s a gentle and furry reminder to stop and give thanks.

“An article on Tuesday about a poll in which Americans fared poorly in answering questions about religion misspelled the name of a beatified Roman Catholic nun and Nobel Peace Prize winner. She was Mother Teresa, not Theresa.”

Blogger Richard Floyd’s decades of ministry taught him a thing or two about how the waterbirds of ministry swim, waddle, and peck.

We don’t actually have a “news of the weird” category here at the Cafe, but if did, this story would qualify.

We dare you to sport these goods around the parish hall and see what conversation emerges.