Episode 68: The Role of Humor in Apologetics – with Joel Barry from The Babylon Bee
Mama Bear Apologetics
Hillary Morgan Ferrer & Amy Davison
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
INTRODUCTION:
Today’s guest, Joel Barry, is the managing editor at the Babylon Bee.
SUMMARY OF TOPICS DISCUSSED:
What’s the Babylon Bee?
What’s the role of humor in evangelism and apologetics?
Examples of comedy in Scripture
In light of “cancel culture,” what are the consequences of making humor so serious?
Rapid fire fun questions for Joel
QUOTABLE QUOTES:
“You mess with a mama bear’s kids, that’s a surefire way to bring trouble upon yourself.” – Joel
“A good joke can remind us that we’re all in the same boat.” – Joel
“There’s no conflict between humor and Christianity.” – Joel
PEOPLE AND RESOURCES MENTIONED:
The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness
G.K. Chesterton: “It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.” (All Things Considered (1908))
The Bible and Beer Consortium
Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Biblical Sexuality
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mama Bear Apologetics Podcast. |
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| 0:12.2 | And by roar we mean recognize the message, offer discernment, argue for a healthier approach, |
| 0:17.0 | and reinforce these ideas with your kids. |
| 0:20.0 | Unless you want to growl around your house. I mean that's cool too. |
| 0:22.8 | They're like, check it, we keep it real. |
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| 0:38.0 | It's time to rise up, ladies. Rise up, Mama Bears. This might not affect your faith, but it might affect your children's |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to another episode of mama bear apologetics. I'm Hillary and I'm Amy and with us we have Joel Berry from the Babylon B |
| 0:59.2 | I consider this a moment of arrival for for mama bear apologetics that the Babylon Bee would come on our show. |
| 1:05.6 | But they too have just released a book in the Babylon Bees Guide to Wokeness, but we're not going to talk |
| 1:11.4 | about the book because you can go get the book. And where can they get the book, Joel? |
| 1:16.0 | Anywhere, fine books are sold. |
| 1:18.0 | Amazon, Barnes, Noble, Books, a Million, here pretty soon, probably in the next couple of weeks, we're going to have it up on our store the Babylon B.com too so you can buy it directly from us. Very cool. So we're going to go through a couple of questions with him today. Just some of the more serious questions and then some of the more fun questions |
| 1:33.6 | because you can't talk to the Babylon B and keep it all theological but we're going to make it a |
| 1:37.3 | little theological. I love it. Before we start I just got to say I love the name of your |
| 1:42.0 | podcast mama bear |
| 1:43.1 | apologetics it's been it's been a good year for mama bears I feel like it has I have |
| 1:49.5 | people sending me stuff they're like are you involved with this are you involved |
| 1:52.4 | with this because it you involved with this? |
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