Telling the Truth in the Dark

April 2019 

Telling the Truth in the Dark 

Jimison, Jonny. “Truth-telling in the Dark.” The Rabbit Room, The Rabbit Room, 28 Mar. 2019, rabbitroom.com/2019/03/truth-telling-in-the-dark/.

Jonny Jimison is a graphic novelist with a slapstick sense of humour and quirky characters. In this honest retrospective article he compares his work to The Shiloh Trilogy by Helena Sorensen. Sorensen’s novels speak truth in the darkness. Helena’s novels touch on something deep within the human soul, speaking into our longing and our desperate need for hope. Jimison was deeply affected by these novels, and continues to find life in art that speaks the truth about the darkness all around us. Which is why he felt that his voice didn’t matter. 

It took him becoming a member of “The Rabbit Room” community, a group of people who  “(have) helped me see how that light tone is an asset, a blessing—a gift from the Creator!” To learn that God calls us through the dark truths, and to the light and humorous, it is our role to continue to follow that leading voice, and trust God to fill in the gaps.
Jimison learned that his humorous cartoons can hold truth just as deeply as the dark novels, and through that lesson he urges us all to tell the truth that God is calling us to tell without judgement of our own unique voices.