HUMOR

I have been asked why I start the worship service with a joke or three. (Usually by those who had a more formal background or experience.) I simply reply, at the beginning of the service, it helps to allow people to finish their conversations and take their seats. Some have offered to me certain jokes that I simply cannot retell in church.

I come from that formal background, the Anglican Episcopal church. As a teenager, I felt left out. I could not comprehend the messages, and so much of it was prayer book prayers and no heart. I hope to make worship real and simple. I can only be me.