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 ...

Periodically, this time of the year, I write a column about the Second Sunday in the Easter season. Also known as “Bright” or “Laughter” Sunday, its observance goes back to the days of the early ...

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 ...

Graceful humor has redeemed many a desperate crisis, as some of us have experienced in our own lives. I call it “graceful humor” because through it God brings miracles of healing and hope, ...

For years, Hollywood has presented stories based on the bible as epic, larger-than-life events. They’ve often been overly serious, occasionally dull, and rarely relatable. (Anyone remember the NBC ...

The Rev. Jay M. Terbush of First Church of Christ of Longmeadow. LONGMEADOW -- First Church of Christ in Longmeadow, 763 Longmeadow St., and the Rev. Jay M. Terbush, senior pastor, will celebrate ...

As the Rev. Thomas Goodhue began his homily, the choir members at his Bay Shore church pulled out newspapers and held them in front of their faces as they read -- seemingly bored to death. Another ...

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