Someone passed an ad from them on to me to see if we'd be interested in posting it on our new website (not yet up....next week!)

Anyway, although I personally got a few chuckles and it took me on a walk down memory lane of my dad's church's old newsletters, our church's newsletters, bulletins and website are mainly outreach/info tools for our guests - and by using something like this on any of those, to me it says, "come join our christian club - we have our own jokes!" which is not the message our church is trying to communicate.

Cheers Kevin,

There will be plenty more cartoons -- it's been a mad rush getting the site up for the Exhibition where it's launching.

Dave

That's a good point, Anne. I wonder what everyone else thinks: are church cartoons appropriate? Or are they more Christian bubble navel-gazing?

While I understand your point, I also think it's acceptable--even expected--for the content of a newsletter to reflect its audience. Thus if a business journal chose to run cartoons, they'd be business-oriented cartoons. If a family magazine ran cartoons, they'd be family-oriented. If a church newsletter ran cartoons, you get the idea.

Of course the cartoons need to be top-notch. While they should be church related, they need to be understandable to outsiders. If that's the case, then I think they send the message, "hey, we know how to be funny, church isn't always serious, and you're welcome here" as oppsed to "come join our christian club--we have our own jokes."