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Sunny Banana

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Subscribe for exclusive content and 10% off Biltong at https://www.buzzsprout.com/2429544/subscribe 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 th...

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#49 | The Afrikaans Greek Orthodox continues - Saints and Worship lead us to God PART 2 08.07.2026 26:45

The saints are not a chapter in a history book for us, they are part of the Church’s present tense. We talk about the startling intimacy of Orthodox Christianity: speaking to the Panagia like family, kissing an icon beside a stranger and feeling a real bond, and remembering that holiness is not reserved for monks or martyrs. Along the way we touch on incorrupt relics and the living memory of saint...

# 48 | A young Afrikaner becomes Greek Orthodox PART 1 01.07.2026 30:01

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) Nektarios' Business selling beautiful Orthodox Products https://www.instagram.com/prodromossouthafrica?igsh=...

#45 | Have you been in the dark belly of a monster? Why a spiritual father/mother is essential 02.06.2026 7:36

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) Ten reps can feel impossible until someone looks you in the eye and believes you can do them. After a morning at...

#44 | Anger And Lust As Fuel For God 26.05.2026 7:06

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) Anger, lust, jealousy, pride, cravings, addiction, we usually talk about them like they’re glitches to delete. I’...

#43 | The Miracle Was Right In Front Of You 18.05.2026 7:31

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) A woman is healed of blindness by Saint Brigid of Kildare, takes in the world with tears in her eyes, and then ma...

#42 | Baptism Did Not End The Battle It Made It Real - The Sunny Banana was interviewed! 08.05.2026 1:09:35

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) You can hear it when someone stops treating faith like a label and starts treating it like a life. Jonah (formerl...

#41 | Tyres Flat, Soul Tired: Time For A Church Pit Stop 24.04.2026 6:30

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) A message recorded while driving, sparked by a phrase on the back of a lorry: “Making the world a better home”. I...

#40 | Why Christians Fight For The Body Not Against It 17.03.2026 7:46

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) Fighting against your body can feel like the normal version of spirituality. But what if that posture is backward...

#39 | From Odin and Runes To Christ: A Journey Into Orthodox Faith, Strength, And Becoming Truly Human 08.03.2026 16:31

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) What does it take to walk away from a life built on fear, force, and a code without love? We sit with a man marke...

#38 | Mercy As Medicine For A Culture Of Pride 26.02.2026 9:24

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) What if the bravest act you make this week is a sincere “I’m sorry”? We open a heartfelt space to rethink repenta...

#37 | What Apartheid in South Africa taught me about Faith and Truth 12.02.2026 10:57

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) Certainty feels safe, but it often shuts our ears and hardens our hearts. We open up about a different way to liv...

#36 | Is Love Love? 06.02.2026 9:25

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) What if the way we talk about love is quietly shaping us into consumers rather than companions? I take a hard loo...

#35 | Who Teaches You How To Be Human 29.01.2026 6:40

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) A dark, rain-slick road. Headlights flash, water pools under a bridge, and a stranger glides through the flood li...

# 34 | A Priest, A Brothel, And The Measure Of Mercy 22.01.2026 6:57

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) A quiet blessing rounds a corner and meets a room most people would avoid. What follows isn’t scandal or retreat....

# 33 | When Life Feels Like A Grave, Remember You Are A Seed 14.01.2026 6:52

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) When the world goes dark, it’s easy to assume the worst. We take a breath together and try on a different image:...

#32 | Providence Or Chaos: How We Decide What Pain Becomes 08.01.2026 10:56

#31 | If God Became Human, What Does That Make Of Us 09.12.2025 7:20

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) What if Christmas isn’t a soft-focus memory but the moment the world tilted toward restoration? We open the seaso...

#31 | Anxious? God has a plan: Mercy. Love. Thankfulness. 02.12.2025 7:43

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) Anxiety loves to keep us time-travelling—looping old regrets and forecasting worst-case futures—until the present...

#30 | Being a Man 28.11.2025 6:00

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) A gentle greeting turns into a clear call: men and women are not rival camps, and strength is not the enemy. We s...

#29 | Andy Bannister | Men, Machines, And A Not-So Holy Beard 20.11.2025 43:01

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) Something is shifting. The old script—more science equals less God—no longer fits the moment, and faith is making...

Raising Resilient Girls | Adversity + Community + Faith > Labels And Pills #28 14.11.2025 9:35

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) Here is a link to the Conversation from Freya India's Substack - Girls https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/diagno...

God is Love | When Light Opens The Closed Rose Of The Heart #27 07.11.2025 5:47

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) A single beam of light through a church window changed how we saw the day—and ourselves. What began as a personal...

Porn, Money and Modernity | Desire Aims At God Or It Eats You #26 29.10.2025 8:02

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) Desire isn’t the villain of a spiritual life; it’s the compass that needs re‑calibrating. We’ve been sold the ide...

Black History Month | "Dig up the past and you will loose an eye. Forget the past and you will loose both" 17.10.2025 8:49

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) Memory can either blind us or guide us. We open up a timely reflection on Black History Month by asking a hard qu...

Transhumanism | Please Hold While We (not God) Upload Your Soul 15.10.2025 9:43

For £2.27 ($3) a month you get: Exclusive access to premium content Access to great value on all Jarvah Biltong Products (UK only) All funds go to the Orthodox Church in St Leonard's, Hastings to continue it's transformational work Sunny Banana (Sunny Banana + Jarvah Biltong) A polished pitch promises a future without pain, work, or death—just upload your life, give up a little control,...