As the shadows lengthen in the late Yom Kippur afternoon, we sit back in our seats, reading again the fascinating story of the prophet Jonah, one of the greatest stories of repentance in all of ...

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There have been two solar eclipses: The first occurred on August 21st, 2017, and the second one will occur on April 8th, 2024. It appears that these two eclipses mark a giant "X marks the spot" on ...

We here in southern Illinois are about to be at the center of the umbra for the eclipse of a lifetime. I've been waiting for this one ever since I heard about it when I was growing up here 48 years ...

When Jonah entered the great city of Nineveh, he called the whole city to repentance. The king and all the people received Jonah’s message. They repented, called for a fast, put on sackcloth, and ...

Sometime after the fish vomited Jonah onto dry land, the word of the Lord comes to him yet again, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” (Jonah 3 ...

(RNS) — The Book of Jonah is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Because of what is happening in the Middle East right now, the Book of Jonah is especially relevant to us today. Jonah is not a ...