Thought for the Week: Jubilee

Tim Jones reflects on the Biblical meaning of 'jubilee' and its relevance today

by Tim Jones 1st February 2013

This time last year, Elizabeth the second said to a meeting of faith leaders ‘the concept of a Jubilee is rooted in the Bible’. Whilst looking forward to her own celebration, she failed to mention that a biblical jubilee is not about a monarch’s reign, but was a celebration because debts were cancelled, slaves freed, land returned and fields left fallow.