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More Christian Crackers by Published by Phil Mason and is available for £1 from ‘Norheimsund’, 1 Whitney Road, Burton Latimer, Kettering, Northants NN15 5SL. ISBN 0 948852 62 3
I firmly believe that humour is a gift from heaven. If I can share an inoffensive little story that makes someone laugh, I have served God that day. At Church House, hardly a week passes without me having a new (well ... more often old and recycled) joke to tell. Unfortunately, there are colleagues whose reaction is to groan and threaten me with excommunication.
So, I was delighted when Reform asked me to review, not a heavyweight theological tome, but a little twelve page collection of Christian crackers. The authors first produced booklets of this kind in 1984, and have come out of retirement to compile just one more, in aid of the Church Army and a local air ambulance service. They tell me that over the years they have had a great many United Reformed Church customers and it gladdens my heart to hear that.
Of course, many of the ‘crackers’ are not new. But, as we joketellers know, there is no such thing as a new joke - but there are new ways into old ones.
For ecumenists there is the story of a woman buying stamps for her Christmas cards. “What denomination?” asked the cashier. Surprised, the woman replied, “You had better give me fifty Baptist and fifty Catholic”.
For cheek I like the one about the minister (and, in our context it is of course a URC minister) who asks the Junior Church children what difference it would have made if Jesus had not been born. “Well,” said one lad, “You’d be out of a job for a start”.
But for those not too obsessed with being PC I have to confess I do like the story of the old lady listening to the Salvation Army band. She put a coin in the collecting box and was asked if she would like to choose a hymn. She pointed to the big hunky Salvationist with the bass drum and said “Oh! Thank you! I’ll take him”.
And there are lots more. SD
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