Description
This book offers preachers insight into the ways stand-up comedy can inform preaching. Author Jacob D. Myers, an associate professor at Columbia Theological Seminary, believes comedy can inform preaching in two useful ways: by inviting participation among diverse audience members and by challenging inequality without totally alienating people. To explore these ideas, Myers includes chapters on justice, language games, authenticity, voice and gesture, and more. Each chapter highlights a contemporary comedian whose work connects to the chapter's theme.
Features
- Stand-Up Spotlight featuring contemporary comedians
- Foreword by Frank A. Thomas
- Works cited
- Subject and name index
Practical Applications
- Read the book to deepen your understanding of rhetorical tools and devices and forms of comedy that aid in instruction.
- Identify a chapter in the book that can help you add comedic elements to a sermon for a specific purpose, such as offering a critique.
