Some have said that modern satire--comedy's brainy older brother--is peaking these days.  Sarcasm has colored our language and shaped our thinking, and as a Christian, I must ask myself where humor fits into God’s worldview. In my biblical concordance there are no categories for comedy, humor, satire, or irony, but let's not assume God has nothing to say about such things. I can't find topics like blogging, blind dates, or broom hockey in the Bible either, but God's principles, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures, have a way of illuminating the non-essentials.

Somewhere in the middle of Jon Stewart’s faux civics textbook entitled America is reprinted the daily schedule of a fictional political convention. It includes, among other things, the 7:25 a.m. “Adulterer Walk of Shame” followed by the juxtaposition of an 8:00 a.m. prayer breakfast.