Politics 311w-it WRITING POLITICAL HUMOR

C(live). S(taples). Lewis (1898-1963)

Contemporary media

Safe Christian Humor

http://christianity.about.com/library/weekly/aa080302.htm

‘the best "Christian" humor on the net, not all of it entirely jocular’

http://christianity.about.com/cs/christianhumor/

‘Religious Humor and Satire’ by Bob Kuhn

http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/religious_humor_&_satire

Light-hearted bible riddles

http://christianity.about.com/cs/christianhumor/a/bibleriddles.htm

http://www.christiancartoons.com/

Danny Murphy, writer and humorist  

http://www.christiancomedy.net/

catholic humor

http://www.newmanctr-uoregon.org/h_r/homily020901.html

Papist humor

www.splendoroftruth.com/.../ archives/004530.php

Progressive Christian humor

Bush v Jesus

http://www.gwbush04.com/v.php?f=news&sid=76

Sojourner’s campaign

http://go.sojo.net/campaign/takebackourfaith

Sojourners on Pres Debates

http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=action.election&item=petition_flash2

Secular humanism

Mad Magazine and

http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/shb/madigan_11_4.html

God and Devil Show

http://www.mondominishows.com/shows/god_and_devil/

commercialized Christianity: real products some with operating sites:

http://ship-of-fools.com/kitschmas/kitschmas_body.html

Religious satire

Sites with links:

http://christianity.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.ship%2Dof%2Dfools.com

http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/humor.htm

specific links:

http://ship-of-fools.com/

http://www.thedoormagazine.com/home.html

Specific Influences:

Cartoonist Bill Watterson named MRS WORMWOOD the fictional first-grade teacher in his Calvin and Hobbes after the male novice devil Wormwood.

http://www.angelfire.com/mi3/candh/characters.html

"The Screwtape Reports" which are from Dave Screwtape, a Democratic political consultant, by Adam Graham
http://adamsweb.us/screwtape.html

The Red Tape Letters, by Lee Whipple, reviewed by W.J. Rayment for the Conservative http://www.conservativebookstore.com/rwhipple.shtml

Email messages on computer use

http://www.computer-guru.com/screw.html

http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2001/002/9.29.html

Leadership Journal, Spring 2001

Screwtape's Strategy for Pastors: A devilish letter reveals insidious plans to render you harmless.
In C.S. Lewis's classic The Screwtape Letters, a senior devil mentors Wormwood, a junior devil, on leading people astray. Recently writer Calvin Miller found on his desk the following, which suggests that Screwtape is setting pastors in his sights.

http://www.cslewisclassics.com/pr.html

"The Screwtape Letters-- Now it's Your Turn To Play Devil's Advocate"

http://www.cslewisclassics.com/essay.html

winning entry and runners up names including one from John Pattison (Keizer, OR) runner up
or at
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/90/story_9090.html

another contest
http://www.oxford.anglican.org/door.php?id=1054

Cartoons

http://www.geocities.com/eefavian/gallery/screwtape.htm