This Is Acceptable Because They Have Been Dead for Centuries

“It is hardly surprising that the use of humour in preaching and teaching has had a long and honourable tradition. It is particularly florished during the sixteenth-century Reformation, for both Martin Luther on the Continent and Hugh Latimer in England used their earthy descriptive powers to the full. They drew cartoons with words, which still have the power to make us laugh today” (Stott, Between Two Worlds, p. 288).