To a conservative church in a south-western Ontario town comes Jonah Arias—a troubled, left-leaning, pill-popping United Church minister. Reverend Jonah is young and idealistic, with courage enough to challenge the power-brokers in his small community. When he starts an inappropriate relationship with a young woman in the congregation, and then decides to repatriate a former member of the church expelled for being in a lesbian relationship, the ensuing battle threatens to derail Jonah's career and fracture the church. The play, like Reverend Jonah himself, is unafraid to ask the tough questions: Do we have the right to judge one another? What constitutes integrity? What is courage? Are we prepared to embrace rather than censure our fellow human beings? Thoughtful and powerful, Reverend Jonah challenges us to explore the meanings of community in the very broadest sense.

Paul Ciufo lives in Grand Bend, Ontario. Reverend Jonah was his first professionally produced stage play. His radio drama On Convoy was produced and broadcast nationally by CBC Radio in 2002. On Convoy was originally a stage play that received a fine community theatre production by Goderich Little Theatre in Guelph, Ontario. Paul is currently writing two stage plays, Narcisse and The Four Day White-Out, a screenplay titled The Strongest Shape in the World, and a memoir called The Sun Shines on Manhattan.

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