FROM THE EDITOR
Terry C. Muck
April 1, 1983
Dean Gordon Johnson was serious. "Bethel Seminary students who relieve their study with laughter usually end up as the most satisfied pastors."
I listened to that freshman orientation talk ten years ago hoping Dean Johnson was correct. I liked to laugh. As far as I was concerned, the perfect way to end a tedious day of study was a good practical joke in some corner of the library. I was relieved to know Dean Johnson also thought that humor and religion mix.
Apparently the readers of LEADERSHIP share that bias. Hardly a day goes by without our getting a letter or reader survey commending our cartoons. This one came in recently from Maureen Rufe, an evangelist with Diatheke Ministries:
"Do you have any idea what your cartoons are doing to me? They're giving me a wonderful sense of humor. Many adorn the walls of my counseling room, and I give them to depressed counselees-they're smiling in no time. Humor is a wonderful medicine prescribed by God to keep us from taking ourselves too seriously."
LEADERSHIPS humor druggists are the artists who supply us with cartoons. Some of them are pastors, some are not. They have different styles, personalities, and interests. In three years of publishing, we've used 250 cartoons drawn by over forty different artists. Three of those, because of both their quantity and quality, have become regulars.
Rob Portlock, a milkman in Lompoc, California, has had forty-five cartoons published in LEADERSHIP. Rob, now thirty years old, has wanted to be a cartoonist for as long as he can remember. He started sending editorial cartoons to a local newspaper five years ago and then realized some of the same issues he addressed in the political arena applied to church administrators.
"I think God used that time of ...
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