Review: Elisha McIntyre. Religious Humor in Evangelical Christian and Mormon Culture. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Authors

John-Charles Duffy

Keywords

missionary, correlation, cartoon, Sunstone, plan of salvation

Abstract

In 2005 Sunstone magazine published an essay I had written, “The New Missionary Discussions and the Future of Correlation.” To make it look less boring on the page, Sunstone’s editorial staff decided to illustrate the essay with cartoons related to Latter-day Saint missionary work. I was invited to propose cartoon concepts, which would then be executed by Jeanette Atwood, a cartoonist Sunstone often employed. I sat down with my husband to brainstorm. In one of our cartoon concepts, which Sunstone accepted, two missionaries are teaching the plan of salvation with the aid of a flip chart. One missionary tells the investigator, “I want you to know . . . that I know with every fiber of my being that the Church employees who wrote this discussion, the MTC staff who field tested it, and the committee that correlated it are true.”

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Duffy, John-Charles (2021) "Review: Elisha McIntyre. Religious Humor in Evangelical Christian and Mormon Culture. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 8: No. 1, Article 23.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol8/iss1/23