Dominic Conti walks by carrying "the ax of the apostles." Austin Tichenor announces the next skit will cover "early Genesis," the best part, "when they still had Peter Gabriel." Abraham enters in a ...

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*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. When pollsters for Harris Interactive asked Americans last year to name their favorite book of all time, there weren't a lot of ...

A Brigham Young University English professor will discuss “Humor in the Bible” during the annual P.A. Christensen Humanities lecture Thursday, Feb. 19, at 11 a.m. in 2084 Jesse Knight Humanities ...

Like many Americans, Bill Cosby owns multiple Bibles — eight, in fact. And, like many Americans, he doesn’t read any of them regularly. But for a half-century or more, Cosby’s been looking for funny ...

I was at Starbucks working on an upcoming sermon. An acquaintance of mine stopped me to say hello. We chatted for a while and then he said, "I saw recently that you were doing an online Bible Study on ...

The Arkansas Times’ staff theologian, Bob Lancaster, contributed his own take on the question of humor in the Bible. There are no jokes in the Bible. You could argue that it’s all one big Joke but ...

Henry Dampier, 20 years old and raised to be a Christian gentleman, is pursuing a career selling Bibles door-to-door when he sticks his thumb out for a ride and ends up traveling an unexpected path.

David Plotz was a not-very-observant Jew who had spent three decades largely avoiding the Bible until one day when, bored at a cousin's bat mitzvah, he began thumbing through a copy of the Torah.

Funny thing, the Bible. Funny peculiar, not funny 'haha'. In fact, it is the glaring lack of 'haha' that makes it so peculiar. There is almost no humour in the Tanakh and New Testament. The Old ...