Things were a little different at Opportunity Christian Church last Sunday. Smiley face balloons were everywhere, the sermon was delivered by a ventriloquist and the congregation rocked with laughter.

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 ...

(UNDATED) In 1988, the founder of the Fellowship of Merry Christians began urging churches to tell jokes and inject humor into their services on the Sunday after Easter. Cal Samra dubbed that day ...

Pastor Howard Boles once used a deleted movie scene from the Monty Python troupe on Biblical shepherds in their fields as part of a sermon message. In the clip, as herdsmen are engrossed in passionate ...

An increasing number of Christian churches are celebrating the Sunday after Easter as Holy Humor Sunday. This refreshes an Easter custom begun by the Greeks in the early centuries of Christianity.

As Holy Week comes to a close, one priest’s telling of the familiar Easter story is a little different. Father Eamon Kelly, L.C., Vice Chargé at the Pontifical Institute Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center ...

Just below the altar at Trinity United Methodist Church in Poquoson, the Rev. Roy P. White yuks it up in his sermon with the help of a snide ventriloquist’s dummy named Isaac. Kids crowd around him.