So little over a week ago I served notice that I would be
- Recording my hoary old Jonah monologues and putting them up on YouTube, and
- Starting a series of Bible Studies/lectures on the Book of Jonah based on the series I delivered at Holden Village last summer.
Well, I delivered on the first of those promises/threats, and if you haven't yet seen them, here is the first of them in glorious Technicolour (he says carefully inserting superflous u to avoid any copyright/trademark issues - something I have been tip-toeing around more than ever recently)
Tonight I start my series on this book, technology permitting... It's going to be going out live on the now ubiquitous Zoom, so there is no point putting a link on here that will be redundant in 9 hours time. But if you are reading this before then and are interested in joining us (and by us that could be me, Rev. Dr. Janet Unsworth, Principal of Edgehill Theological College, who is going to lead off in the Q&A afterwards, and my cat), then check out our circuit facebook page for the link, or contact me directly.
Tonight I give you fair warning that we're not going to get very far into the journey... In fact probably no further than the first verse! It's basically an introduction on how we actually read most Biblical texts "preposterously". Is it possible to get back to what the “word of the LORD” originally said?
A journey with Jonah, a truly preposterous prophet, may help us to think again about how God speaks to us through scripture.
Anyway, away off to try and work out how to cram a lecture that was too long last year into an even shorter time, frame tonight...
Shalom
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