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The Book of Jonah presents an irresistible interpretive puzzle: is it really history, or, as many scholars suggest, Hebrew satire? The case for history is not trivial. The protagonist Jonah is named and dateable: 2 Kings 14:25 identifies Jonah ben Amittai as a real eighth-century prophet from Gath-hepher who served under Jeroboam II. And Nineveh is no vague mythological backdrop. It is a real, documented, excavated city with deep fish-deity mythology, and its artifacts sit in

You drive home in the dark after something lovely. The evening was everything you hoped it would be, there was laughter, warmth, the particular ease of being with people you love. And yet somewhere between pulling out of the driveway and pulling into your own, something in you quietly drops. You stand at the sink rinsing plates and notice it: a kind of interior deflation. Not grief, exactly. Not ingratitude. Something harder to name. That feeling deserves to be sat with befor

There is a question I have been sitting with since Sunday, one that arrived from a conversation that ran nearly six hours and showed no sign of ending. Last week I had dinner with an old school friend, Sam, and our favourite teacher from year twelve, Sandy, who is now in her late-eighties and still easily the sharpest and most interesting person in the room. That night, we covered so many fun topics, from the train wreck of Washington politics to the meaning of ordination to