Laugh Your Way to Grace: Reclaiming the Spiritual Power of Humor
Laughter was honored by the ancients as a spiritual healing tool and celebrated by the world's great religions. So why aren't we laughing along the spiritual path today? What would happen if we did?
In this personal and funny look at humor as a spiritual practice, Rev. Susan Sparks--an ex-lawyer turned comedian and Baptist minister--presents a convincing case that the power of humor radiates far beyond punch lines. Laughter can help you:
- Remove the fearful mask of a God who doesn't laugh
- Debunk the myths that you don't deserve joy
- Find perspective when faced with adversity
- Exercise forgiveness for yourself and others
- Reclaim play as a spiritual practice
- Heal--emotionally, physically and spiritually
- Keep your faith when God is silent
- Live with elegance, beauty and generosity of spirit
Whatever your faith traditions--or if you have none at all--join this veteran of the punch line and the pulpit in reclaiming the forgotten humor legacy found in thousands of years of human spiritual history.
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Book details
- Author
- Susan Grace Sparks
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Spirituality
Self-Help › Spiritual
Religion › Christian Theology › Anthropology - Topics
- humor and spirituality · laughter and healing · spiritual practice · forgiveness · joy and faith · Christian spirituality · overcoming adversity
- ISBN-13
- 9781594732805 (Paperback)9781683361688 (Hardcover)
About the author
REV. SUSAN SPARKS is the first woman to serve as Senior Minister of Madison Avenue Baptist Church in New York City, installed in May 2007 as its 15th Senior Minister. She is the author of Laugh Your Way to Grace: Reclaiming the Spiritual Power of Humor.
Sparks has received the Intersections International Award for interfaith work and the John L. Haber Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts from the University of North Carolina. Her work has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, the New York Times, and on ABC, CNN, and CBS.
When she’s not writing, Sparks tours nationally as a professional comedian on the Laugh in Peace Tour alongside a rabbi and a Muslim comic. Much of her work explores the intersection of humor and religion.