{"id":29433,"date":"2011-11-21T00:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T00:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pbs_religion_and_ethics_newsweekly_spirituality_and_humor\/"},"modified":"2011-11-21T00:30:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T00:30:33","slug":"pbs_religion_and_ethics_newsweekly_spirituality_and_humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29433","title":{"rendered":"PBS&#39; Religion and Ethics Newsweekly: Spirituality and Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[KIM] LAWTON: Father James Martin says humor is an underappreciated value in the spiritual life.  Martin has written a new book called Between Heaven and Mirth.  He says humor, laughter and joy are essential elements of spiritual health.<\/p>\n<p>[THE REV. JAMES] MARTIN [SJ]: If you\u2019re not finding joy in your faith, there\u2019s something wrong with the way you are looking at your faith. And humor keeps us human, basically, brings us down to earth and reminds us that we\u2019re not God.<\/p>\n<p>LAWTON: Martin says all too often, joy has a \u201cdisreputable reputation\u201d\u009d in religious circles.<\/p>\n<p>MARTIN (in speech):  Have you ever been to Mass where the priest says (in boring voice) \u201cAnd so we join with choirs of angels and their unending hymn of praise, holy, holy, holy Lord?\u201d\u009d And you think, if that\u2019s the way the choirs of angels are singing their praise we are in big trouble. (laughter)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/november-18-2011\/spirituality-and-humor\/9931\">Read or watch it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[KIM] LAWTON: Father James Martin says humor is an underappreciated value in the spiritual life. Martin has written a new book called Between Heaven and Mirth. He says humor, laughter and joy are essential elements of spiritual health. [THE REV.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29433\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,194,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-general-interest","category-humor-trivia","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}