About Joel Kilpatrick
Joel Kilpatrick began his career as a reporter and journalist whose work would eventually be featured in Time magazine, the Washington Post, USA Today, CBS Radio, the Dallas Morning News and dozens of newspapers and magazines.
Early in his career he reported from disaster zones and civil wars in seventeen countries and received the first place prize for freelance reporting from the Evangelical Press Association, later becoming a contest judge. He also authored and ghostwrote more than 40 books for leading CEOs, ministers, athletes and doctors, including Don Colbert's New York Times bestselling Seven Pillars of Health.
But it is humor writing that brought Joel's work to national attention. One radio report described his writing as "pithy Christian satire on par with the irreverence of Saturday Night Live and The Onion." His website, LarkNews.com, earned the Christian industry's top honor, the Grady Nutt Humor Award, during Dove Awards week in Nashville in 2005 and made Joel the subject of profiles in Christianity Today and leading secular magazines.
"I always loved humor, but the popularity of LarkNews surprised me," he says. "I didn't realize how much God and other people like funny stuff. I launched it as a hobby and it promptly consumed my career."
Joel discovered comedy in boyhood, growing up among Jesus freaks at Bethel Church in Redding, California. He traveled often with his father, singer-songwriter Bob Kilpatrick, to countless churches, camps and crusades around the world.
Never forget to laugh! Here is some great fun from Joel Kilpatrick, founder of Larknews.com. You don’t know about Lark News? It’s a Christian version of The Onion … so put on your sense […]