Crucifixion Comedy
byWhen Monty Python’s Life of Brian arrived on Netflix in April 2018, a controversial piece of cinema history returned to public prominence. A film which…
Theology & Comedy
Review: Redeeming Laughter
byPeter Berger, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience, 2nd ed. New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2014. 201 pp. £22.99/$42.00 Fittingly, the title…
Review: St John and the Victorians
byMichael Wheeler, St John and the Victorians, Cambridge University Press, 2014, 286 pps., $44.99 / £30.82 This is a fun book. Lurking behind profound…
Review: A Double Dose of Jesuit Humour
byJake Martin, SJ. What’s So Funny about Faith?: A Memoir from the Intersection of Hilarious and Holy. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2012, 161 pp., £11.50/$13.95 paper. James…
The Laughter that the World Cannot Give
byThe Good Book tells us that when the Lord comes, “The lame shall be humorous again!” Actually, it’s “leap like the deer” (Is. 35:6),…
Uncloaking the Proud: The Power of Comedy
by‘I do not like seriousness. I think it is irreligious. The man who takes everything seriously is the man who makes an idol of…
Two Humours Too Many
byIt was Saturday evening. I was set to perform a sketch at the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (CICCU) meeting straight after the visiting preacher…