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Cindy’s 5th grade class was assigned to present an object lesson. She brought her goldfish to school and made her ...

Jonah hated Nineveh; he did not want its reconciliation with God; he wanted its destruction. So, he sails away on a ship. When a storm comes, the crew and passengers pray to their gods for ...

Jonah is a prophet for today (RNS) — God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza. An illustration of the prophet Jonah and the giant fish.

The novel is divided into two sections, “Truth” and “Mercy,” the tension between which the Book of Jonah sits. The ancient prophet, after all, is given a commandment by God to warn ...

God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza. ... Jonah is the prophet we need today. Thomas J. Reese January 23, 2024.

On Yom Kippur afternoon, we read the book of Jonah. Having prayed and fasted all day, our attention wanes, and we often miss the deeper meanings of the narrative.

In the Qur’an’s Jonah story, for example, the prophet prays, “Glory be to you, for I have certainly done wrong.” In the Bible, Jonah never agrees he’s erred.

Jonah hurries to tell Nineveh that it’s doomed. But the city repents, and God forgives the people, which frustrates the prophet — after all, why all the drama if nothing was going to happen?

Jonah mulled over the similarities between his current situation and that of Noah’s, long ago. “After the great Flood , Noah had sent out a dove from the ark to check on the water level ...