Alabama’s secretary of state is making jokes about Churches of Christ — and Baptists, Methodists, Catholics and Pentecostals.
Religion writer Greg Garrison of The Birmingham News (who has written a few freelance features for The Christian Chronicle — click here and here) writes that Alabama Secretary of State Beth Chapman can tell a church joke like few other politicians.
Here’s what she had to say in her stand-up act about Churches of Christ:
“Any Church of Christ people here?” Chapman asked. No hands were raised. “Good. Let’s make fun of them,” …

Most young adults today don’t pray, don’t worship and don’t read the Bible, according to a survey cited by a front-page story in USA Today. Are we seeing that trend in Churches of Christ?