Here’s what’s new this month:
• Don’t become a digital dinosaur! (interview with Upper Case)
• Hope and Humor: Beyond McPrayer
• The man who wrote the book on humor (interview with Jeanette Levellie)
• Top ten pages
• When God Turned Off the Lights by Cec Murphey (book review)
And, of course, our annual look at Halloween and other twist [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Humor’
October 3, 2009
New for October 2009
September 23, 2009
‘Writing with Bananas’ and ‘Beyond McPrayer’
A couple new posts at jameswatkins!com:
Beyond ‘McPrayer’
Sometimes I’m afraid I treat God like the drive-through window at McDonalds. I scan the menu board of “promise verses,” place my order, and then race my engine as I wait impatiently. More
Humor makes your healthier, smarter
Writing with Banana Peels claims humor makes you healthier and smarter. Free sample [...]
August 29, 2009
New this month: September 2009
• Writing with Banana Peels: Humor Principles, Practices, and Pratfalls is now available! (Read Table of Contents, sample chapters and endorsements, and of course, buy a case for family and friends!)
But wait, there’s more at jameswatkins.com!
• I’m now on YouTube with three of my favorite sketches as well excerpts from talks at American Christian [...]
July 3, 2009
New this month: July 2009
• And the winner of our “Caption This” contest is . . .
• Harry Potter swoops into theaters July 17: some “muggled” thoughts
• Michael Jackson: Brilliant—and bizarre
• Speaking at Montrose Writers’ Conference, July 19-24
Communicate to change lives
Help me! Use me! Love me! (Keynote)
Self-publishing is not for losers
Writing online
• This month’s light touch for heavy times: [...]
June 22, 2009
New this week: June 22, 2009
Brand spankin’ new articles
• A case for women in ministry
• Government offers bailout to churches going under
• Internet preferred source of news 5 to 1 over newspapers
• Jon & Kate plus fate
• Michael Jackson: Brilliant and bizarre
• Life’s VCR
• This week’s light touch for heavy times: “In this world you will have trouble”
June 14, 2009
New this week: June 15, 2009
Happy Father’s Day!
• My real job
• The Papoose-Driven Life
• You may be a parent if . . .
But wait, there’s more . . .
• I can’t wait to remove this page!
• Is Twitter just for twits?
• One-fourth of “church goers” believe in astrology, ghosts, reincarnation . . .
• Speaking at the Kentucky Christian Writers’ Conference [...]
February 2, 2009
• Top ten secrets for . . .
In this week’s issue . . .
Heavy topics
• Top ten secrets for squeezing good out of bad
• Dark knight at Academy Awards
• You may be clinically depressed if . . .
• Top ten pages at jameswatkins.com
• The weight adventure: week 4
Light touch
• My favorite Super Bowl commercials
• Alien lizards secretly rule world
• God tells man [...]
January 19, 2009
• Hi, I’m Jim. I’m prejudiced
The “dream” passed on!
Inside this week’s issue
Breaking news: Tuesday 3:30 pm
• Lois and I just received word that our $40,000+ hospital bill was forgiven! (This summer, she had an unexpected hysterectomy and I had radiation treatments for cancer.) “Thank you, Father!”
Heavy topics
• Hi, I’m Jim. I’m prejudiced
• Jesus on racial, gender, religious and social prejudices
• [...]
January 12, 2009
• When plans don’t succeed
Inside this week’s issue
Heavy topics
• When plans don’t succeed
• The plight of Palestinian Christians
• Church growth in tough times
• Breaking habits before they break you
• The weight adventure
Light touch
• “Writing with Humor” at Taylor University
• Five next big things in church
• How to be creative
• A bear of a bookcase
• Best late-night lines of [...]
