Bill Dunn's    FAITH & FUNNIES

Weekly homily and humor column

A Website dedicated to the two most important issues in life: Spending eternity in Heaven...
and having some laughs during the journey

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In this week’s Gospel, we read about Jesus being baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. With his characteristic brevity, St. Mark, the gospel’s author, covers the whole event in five verses. But in those five short verses Mark offers a powerful lesson about the two aspects of the thing that is most important in the entire world: faith.  (Continued...)

A couple of weeks ago I drove past a middle school just as the students were being let out for the day. I noticed something rather odd: many youngsters were walking quickly, but all of their attention was focused on their cell phones, where their little thumbs were furiously text messaging. (Continued...)

(This website last updated January 7, 2009)