Humor

Vol. 5, No. 4

A sampling of humor in stories, poems, and essays by writers from Mennonite contexts.

In this issue:

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Humor: In This Issue

by Ervin Beck

I grew up in a Mennonite congregation where our pastor-bishop once said from the pulpit, “People ask me why I never smile. The Bible never says that Jesus smiled. It says that ‘Jesus wept.’”
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Mennonite Girls

by Bob Johnson

I was raised a Lutheran boy in Middlebury, Indiana, in the 50s and 60s. In those days there were four denominations in town: Lutheran, Methodist, Church of the Brethren and Mennonite. As far as I knew, those were the sum total of Christian denominations in the world, besides the Amish of course.
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Farm Animals' Desertion: In Which Puss in Boots Learns That the Kota Is Full

by Magdalene Redekop

It’s a way of life that is vanishing, people say—in a mournful tone of voice that makes me want to kick something.
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Poems by Dallas Wiebe

by Dallas Wiebe

Three poems from Monument: Poems on Aging and Dying.
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Current Events

by Rhoda Janzen

MILEY CYRUS RAUNCHY DANCE!
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Fifty Billion Planets

by Jeff Gundy

The galaxy is crawling with life. What’s for dinner? - Anonymous
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Jonah v. The Admiral

by Paul Enns Wiebe

A selection from Wiebe's novel, The Church of the Comic Spirit.
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A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to the Monastery

by Jep Hostetler

Lines from an Old Testament Sabbath Day song, “In old age [the righteous] still produce fruit, still green, still full of sap”(Psalm 92:14), inspired Father Kilian McDonnell, CSB, to write the poem “Retirement Home Chapel.
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Poetry Feature: Andrew Kreider

by Andrew Kreider

Three poems by Andrew Kreider