The authors look closely at both the cultural phenomenon of stand-up comedy and theories of humor, asking what preachers can learn from both. Divine Laughter brings the task of preaching into conversation with both the comedic parts of the Bible and the theological parts of the comedic in order to bring a new kind of life to preaching.

Karl N. Jacobson is senior pastor at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Minneapolis, MN, and a colloquy advisor in Luther Seminary's DMin program. Karl has written widely on the Psalms, podcasts on faith practices and Scripture at "Imbibleing," and blogs about the Bible and popular culture at bibpopcult.wordpress.com. He is the author of Memories of Asaph: Mnemohistory and the Psalms of Asaph and co-author of Crazy Book: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Biblical Terms, Revised and Expanded Edition.