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Jonah

Easter 2 ’25

There are lots of sayings about proof and believing aren’t there. ‘Seeing is believing’, ‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating’. And quite often faith and proof are seen as opposite ends of a spectrum. You have the things you can prove over here, and right over here you have the things you have faith about. It comes across in another saying that’s widely used, ‘a leap of faith’. That sounds much more uncertain than those earlier sayings.

Kingdom 2 ’24

Jonah is a fairly small book, tucked away amidst the other minor prophets, and yet this story packs quite the punch. We often associate it with children, it’s a nice little story about a runaway prophet who gets swallowed by a big fish. But if we dismiss it because we associate it with children we’re missing out. The story and book of Jonah have quite the challenge for us, especially on this Remembrance Sunday.