The Bible’s Most Uncomfortable Story
Why Jonah and Nineveh still disturb us in a world of war
In the middle of a noisy and often fragile world, Lent invites us to pause and look again at the stories we think we already understand. Sometimes those familiar passages turn out to be far more unsettling than we realised.
Today’s reflection explores one of the most surprising stories in the Bible. It is a story about a reluctant prophet, an unexpected response, and a question that refuses to stay in the past.
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