Apostle Paul issued some disclaimers so that people would not think of him more highly than necessary. He was quick to remind his audience that he was as human as any other person. The temptation is that people always like to see ministers of the gospel as spooky individuals, but they are as normal as normal can be. Martin Luther sparked up the Protestant movement by nailing his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. If that is all you know about him you may judge him as an intolerant person. What is easily beclouded behind his serious theological musings was that he had his humour side too. This was discernible by a number of flattering titles he sometimes used to address his wife, Katherine. Part of his pet names for her includes: “Kitty, my rib’’, ‘’my Lord Kate’’. When Katherine started raising pigs, Luther gave her a new name – ‘’My Lord Kate, Mistress of the Pigsty.’’ You can’t but see a light-hearted man here.

The Bible does not condemn humour but frowns at obscenities and profanities. We can use humour to unlock the door of knowledge or lift someone’s spirit.

Katherine herself was no stranger to humour. When Luther was going through a difficult period, he became depressed and nothing seemed to help. One day, Katherine adorned herself in a black dress. ‘’Who died?’’, Luther was forced to enquire. ‘’God’’, Katherine replied. Luther charged her to come off her foolishness. However, she insisted that God must have died or ‘’Doctor Luther would not be so sorrowful.” That did the magic, as Luther snapped back to life. The Bible does not condemn humour but frowns at obscenities and profanities. We can use humour to unlock the door of knowledge or lift someone’s spirit.