Hopeful humor
Welcome! For fifteen years I wrote a humor column for three newspapers. More recently I've written a humor column for each issue
of Rev. magazine.
I hope you'll find the columns not only humorous, but hopeful as well.
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• Are you absolutely sure there are no absolutes?
You're saying it's absolutely true that there's no absolute truth. And if that's true, how can you be sure your statement is truth?
• The Book of Joe
Feeling rather Job-ish? Here's hope!
• Brother Bob Blessing 
"Something Lucrative Is Going to Happen to You"
• Everyone needs a kidney stone
The sensation of having a semi tractor-trailer with snow chains and a load of rolled steel park on your lower back tends to put life into perspective
• Faith of Our Mothers
Brand new lyrics for an old, old song
• Finely-aged believers
Age into a mellow—yet substantial—well-balanced believer with a full-bodied, comforting style
• It's a Wonderful Life
Originally written for pastors, but parishoners need this hope and humor as well
• My "real" job
Confessions of a stay-at-home dad
• The Papoose-Driven Life
I've had to adjust my "purpose-driven" perspective to a "papoose-driven" mindset
• Pray-o-matic
Pray like a pro with my patented system
• Top ten differences between "secretaries"
and "administrative professionals"
10. Secretaries make coffee; administrative professionals procure international resources to motivate and empower staff
• Top ten top great things about being in ministry
10. You can sleep in on Monday mornings
• Top ten signs the staff is stressed out
10. When anyone asks the administrative assistant for something, she replies, "Do you want fries with that?"
• Top ten things I've learned living with cancer
10. Cancer is a great way to get out of work!
• Top ten things you won't hear at commencement
1. World peace isn't going to happen
• Top ten wishes for my 50th birthday
10. I will not obsess about my cholesterol level, the cost of prescriptions, or the condition of my colon
• What I didn't learn in kindergarten
With apologies to Robert All-I-Really-Need-to-Know-I-Learned-in-Kindergarten Fulghum, not everything I learned at Minges Brook Elementary School was true
• "Yep, I'm intolerant"
How about a tolerant mechanic at the brake shop? "I don't like to use the words 'safe' or 'unsafe' when it comes to brake shoes. I prefer to think of them having mechanical diversity."
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