Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of the trickster, and the trickster was a clown, a humorous fellow. His task was to trick the gods, to humor the gods into laughing, so that there was access to the divine - because laughter is a moment when we are completely ourselves.

You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver.

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes

If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem.

Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded.

The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament.