{"id":600,"date":"2007-02-28T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/02\/becky-garrison-bathroom-humor.html"},"modified":"2007-02-28T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T10:03:00","slug":"becky-garrison-bathroom-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/02\/becky-garrison-bathroom-humor.html","title":{"rendered":"Becky Garrison: Bathroom Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sojo.net\/images\/blog\/070228_outreach.gif\" align=\"right\" \/>This bathroom evangelism clip is from the January\/February 2007 issue of<em> Outreach <\/em>magazine. This material is better than any religious satire I could pen &#8211; sometimes truth is funnier than fiction.<\/p>\n<p>On a slightly more serious note, in this same issue, they published their list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/outreachmagazine.com\/Library\/features\/documents\/thelist1.pdf\">25 most innovative churches in the U.S.<\/a> Mostly all-white clergy, all male-led, and mostly megachurches. Is this the church of the 21st century? If so, what makes these churches innovative? If not, then what are some examples of innovative churches you&#8217;ve found?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Becky Garrison\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sojo.net\/images\/blog\/portrait_garrison.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/><strong>Becky Garrison<\/strong> is Senior Contributing Editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewittenburgdoor.com\"><em>The Wittenburg Door<\/em><\/a> and author of the Amazon Short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/My-Memorial\/dp\/B000MGAIDQ\/sr=8-2\/qid=1171076938\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2\/102-3582653-0736939?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\"><em>My Memorial<\/em><\/a>, a creative non-fiction piece based on those 9\/11 volunteers who find they are unable to move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bathroom evangelism clip is from the January\/February 2007 issue of Outreach magazine. This material is better than any religious satire I could pen &#8211; sometimes truth is funnier than fiction. 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