Readers, do me a favor. Fold your arms and don the surliest expression you can manage. Done? Good. Now you know what my last standup comedy audience looked like.

Mercifully, times like these don't happen often. However, when they do, it's excruciating. When faced with a surly crowd, I always...

Many probably think I'm on a slippery slope to hell. I drink beer, I dance, and God help me, I'm a Baptist minister. However, it's not the Stella Artois or tango lessons that are greasing my downward slide. The real shocker? My belief that online gaming may revive organized religion.

Stampedes. Fist fights. Pepper Spray.

Is it a political coup? An Occupy Wall Street riot? The running of the bulls in Pamplona?

No ... it's Christmas shopping 2011.

One would think after 2 million years of evolution that human beings would have transcended such nonsense. Sadly our fight...

One third of the U.S. Supreme Court justices are women, more than 50 female astronauts have traveled into space and 41 women have won the Nobel Peace Prize. But place a woman in a pulpit and blood pressure and eyebrows immediately begin to rise -- rise, that is, within the...

It's spring. The air is soft. The trees are in bloom. And God's creation is filled with the chirping of sleepy Vespas and the roaring of Harley Davidsons waking up from their winter hibernation.

This seasonal ritual is honored every year in one of the most unexpected of places:...

A Rabbi, a Muslim, and a Baptist preacher walk into a room. (Rim shot!) Yes, it is the setup for a joke, but not like you expect. Comedian/Rabbi Bob Alper, Muslim comic Azhar Usman, and myself, an ex-lawyer, turned Baptist minister and standup comedian are taking the stage for the...

Unplug iPod
Music stops abruptly
Cricket song instead

-- Dr. Sun Wolf

Perhaps you've heard the fable about the two frogs. One accidentally hopped in a pot of boiling water. When he felt the heat, he immediately jumped out. The other frog hopped into a pot of...

Bacteria are not the first things I usually turn to for inspiration. But recently, I became a bacteria believer.

Last week, scientists announced that they had trained a microbe of bacteria to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic. Why is this significant? Life forms, at least...

I grew up with a God who wasn't very funny. Then again, neither were Jesus nor the disciples or the prophets.

From an early age, I knew God to be a stern combination of Walter Cronkite and Clint Eastwood in High Plains Drifter. Jesus had the same Cronkite-Eastwood personality, just...