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The Joyful Fool is where laughter winks at lament and storytelling stirs resistance. Rooted in a theology of joy, we tumble past fear-based legalism and into holy trouble—where foolishness becomes sacred and mischief cracks open grace.
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The Nor’easter in My Head (opens the original)
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SubscribeLet me begin with a public service announcement from your resident jester:During this week’s Nor’easter, my brain filed for early retirement, left no forwarding address, and was last seen staggering down the hallway wearing a bathrobe and shouting, “I’m doing the best I can!”If your own mental faculties were similarly wind‑tossed, be assured — you were not alone. A surprising number of us were walking around
You Have to Let Go of that Beloved Plan (opens the original)
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SubscribeThere comes a moment in every leader’s life when the thing they have nurtured—sometimes for years, sometimes for decades—finally begins to move under its own power. The team initiates without prompting. The organization innovates without permission. The community imagines without waiting for the leader to imagine first.It is the moment you hoped for.It is the moment you worked for.And it is the moment that unsettles you.The J
The Terracotta Army and the Case of the Missing Corpses (opens the original)
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SubscribeThe Joyful Fool has learned to approach the internet the way one approaches a carnival funhouse: delightful, surprising, and occasionally full of mirrors that make you look taller, shorter, or—apparently—more corpse‑filled than you really are.So when videos began circulating claiming that China’s Terracotta Army was sculpted around actual human bodies, the Fool tilted his head, blinked twice, and whispered the ancient wisdom: “Well
Keeping in touch (opens the original)
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Hello to all you jesters out there. To be creative sometimes we need to get in touch with the more tactile side of life. We need to reconnect with our past and dredge up old memories that we’ve put away in storage and are gathering dust on the mental shelves. I stumbled across this technique while in the kitchen one evening. This fools better half keeps a bar of soap there. Yes one of those old timey actual bars of soap. I picked it up and leathered my hands and suddenly found myself in another
Loneliness, Touch, and the Holy Mischief of Showing Up (opens the original)
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SubscribeLoneliness is a strange creature. It sneaks into rooms full of people. It hides behind smartphones glowing like tiny campfires. It curls up beside us even when we’re scrolling through a thousand “friends.”And the Joyful Fool — that barefoot wanderer who carries wisdom in one pocket and holy mischief in the other — looks at all this and says:“Well, that’s ridiculous. Let’s fix it.”
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