Sunny Banana
YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@sanibonani-y2g?si=09LymOLYjP7sE3cY
I am a school chaplain and the content is intended to encourage curiosity about Faith and it's impact on day to day life
The Sunny Banana, is a play upon the Zulu greeting, Sanibonani, meaning I see you.
As tech wrenches us from real life, we are not seeing each other. The Greek word 'idea' means to see. It is as if we have lost the idea of what it means to be human; social, communal, relational. The same word, to see, in Old English is 'seon' which has connotations of understanding.
Let's start seeing each other again, listening, respecting, and understanding each other and ourselves. After all, we are people through other people.
Sunny Banana
Latest Episodes
#42 | Baptism Did Not End The Battle It Made It Real - The Sunny Banana was interviewed!
You can hear it when someone stops treating faith like a label and starts treating it like a life. Jonah (formerly an Anglican lay minister and school chaplain from South Africa) tells the story of how candles, incense, and a teenage confirmati...
#41 | Tyres Flat, Soul Tired: Time For A Church Pit Stop
A message recorded while driving, sparked by a phrase on the back of a lorry: “Making the world a better home”. It sounds right, but it also raises a harder question. What if the world is not quite “home” in the way we mean it and what if it is...
#40 | Why Christians Fight For The Body Not Against It
Fighting against your body can feel like the normal version of spirituality. But what if that posture is backwards? I’m unpacking a line from the Orthodox theologian Father Alexander Schmemann that hit me hard: we’re meant to fight for the body...
#39 | From Odin and Runes To Christ: A Journey Into Orthodox Faith, Strength, And Becoming Truly Human
What does it take to walk away from a life built on fear, force, and a code without love? We sit with a man marked by runes and a decade of violence who is preparing for baptism, taking the name Michael to announce a future led by obedience rat...
#38 | Mercy As Medicine For A Culture Of Pride
What if the bravest act you make this week is a sincere “I’m sorry”? We open a heartfelt space to rethink repentance during Lent while honouring the parallel fast of Ramadan. From the hush of Mount Athos to the bustle of a school chapel, we exp...