The Good Noise Blog

Sr. Margaret Dynski, SSJ, MD, a Rochester, NY, surgeon, recently wrote to the editor of The Joyful Noiseletter: "In these uncertain and scary times, would it be possible to issue a happy, lift-me-up version of The Joyful Noiseletter? The news media and social media are drowning people in a tsunami of bad news. But the Gospel is always "the good news." So The Joyful Noiseletter has introduced "The Good Noise Blog" on its website that will regularly feature some of JN's most inspirational and hilarious articles from our past 35 years, on the blog and on JN's Facebook. It will enable JN subscribers to share these articles with their friends on Facebook and give them a faith-lift.

Humor for the hard times

Humor for the hard times

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The Gospel according to Erma Bombeck

Erma Bombeck

In church the other Sunday, I was intent on a small child who was turning around smiling at everyone. He wasn?t gurgling, spitting, humming, kicking, tearing the hymnals, or rummaging through his mother?s handbag. He was just smiling.

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Abe Lincoln's sanity saved by his humor

Prof. John Morreall

As a role model for keeping your sense of humor in life's rough spots, no one beats Abraham Lincoln

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Previous Articles

A laugh a day keeps the psychiatrist away

Day of Hope

A Christian comedian's credo

The Clown's Prayer

God's kids say & do the funniest things

Doggy wisdom

Will Rogers - America's greatest journalist?

Christian Civil War? A Joyful Jesus or a Sad Jesus?

After the Winter, God sends the Spring

The Holy Ghostwriter: Unpraiseworthy Band

Valentines Day Prank

A New Year's Resolution

Thanksgiving Potpourri

The first laugh in the Bible

Choose to love

God is a God of laughter

Pastor lifts congregation's spirits

An old Orthodox prayer to end an unorthodox war

Touched with Joy

Easter

IT'S A MIRACLE! A health and diet book with a spiritual focus

A walking sermon

A New Year's prayer to end all epidemics

Three laughing monks

The healing power and joy of forgiveness

The Holy Ghostwriter: First Christmas News Reports

God is in the punch line

The Gospel according to Erma Bombeck

GESUNDHEIT! What we all can learn from Tom Brady, 'St. GOAT'

Is the Press Sleeping on the Job? Beyond Pesticides & the rise of interest in organic foods

IN THE MARRY MONTH OF JUNE - The funny side of weddings and marriages

'St. Mugg's' resurrection: 'Laughter is God's therapy'

An Easter Reflection: Where did the Pharaohs go?

Whatever happened to 'good works'?

185,000 members spread Joygerms worldwide

'When you're smiling'

What the news media didn't tell you about pandemics

The Christ-Like Will Rogers

Look for the helpers!

Patch Adams calls for 'a revolution of loving'

Messianic Jewish wit full of one-liners

Joy at the Last Supper

Celebrating JN's 35th Anniversary

Why not invite brains to the coronavirus press briefings?

Groucho Marx mask befuddles coronavirus

A 'Resurrection Day' for healed parishioners?

'March of Prayer' is 'March Gladness'

Lincoln Kept Himself Sane with Humor and Jokes

Words to Start the New Year