A little levity works through the whole body...

Or am I misquoting a verse somewhere in the title?

As my lovely wife Wendy sits at the other computer, burning a CD of her photographs while singing Bruce Cockburn's "Burn, Baby, Burn", I read a number of blog entries about the whole emerging church thang that were really creative and funny.

Earlier this week, the Purgatorio blog published You might be emerging if..., which was intended as a somewhat sarcastic mock of the ec. The biggest problem they ran into, as Justin Baeder points out, is that anti-ec people read it and went "yeah, that's them, alright -- how heretical", while pro-ec people read the same thing and went "yeah, that's us, alright -- pour me another Guinness and crank up the U2!"

I just found it really funny! Although I can't afford the cars they're showing as "typical" for ec people.

Not to be outdone, Justin published an equally funny (because I was raised around many fundies and have seen this stuff from the inside) list of Signs the ec isn't for you. In it, Justin also credits the original author of the other post, and the author dropped by to leave a positive comment (way cool of him to do that, methinks).

Last but certainly not least, there was a blog post written about a month ago that I found really, really funny, but just hadn't linked to before (Brother Maynard was the one who originally pointed me to this one). I read it to Wendy as she was waiting for her CD to burn (she had finished singing the Cockburn song, so I wasn't interupting), and she laughed so hard she almost fell out of her chair, and pronounced Why I am not Emergent as one of the funniest blogs she'd ever heard.

So, please enjoy. A little laughter is good for the soul. Guinness is also good for the soul, but laughter is cheaper and you can indulge it at any time in the day without raising any eyebrows (others' eyebrows, I mean, not your own).