British poet William Ernest Henley published a short poem that expressed one way to cope with life’s circumstances.  The poem ...

Deacon Robert Ruggiero has long thought that God had a specific mission for him — possibly the priesthood. But his journey to ...

Check put the complete list of books of the Bible and their authors. The article shares names of people who wrote the 66 ...

A national spiritual awakening is unfolding before our eyes. And it’s coming not through the expected corridors of politics, power or platforms—but through water.

He was the prophet who was instructed by God to ... After he came to, Jonah went to Nineveh, the capital city of the Assyrian empire, and preached to the people and their king.

regretfully abandoned Jonah to the rugged mercies of his God; and how Leviathan, by prearrangement, rose from the sea-bottom and bore the gurgitated prophet in his belly to Nineveh. There Jonah ...

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?

Now was a perfect time for a prophet from far away to arrive on the scene and command a response. What was the result of Jonah's preaching? The ancient city, with up to 1.5 million people, repented!

And should I not be concerned over Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons … ?" "The Prophet Jonah" (1550-1585) by Italian engraver Adamo Scultori (Artvee ...

The story begins with Jonah being told by God to preach repentance to Nineveh. Nineveh was the capital of Assyria, an empire that included what today we call Iraq and Syria. By the time the story ...

(RNS) — God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza. (RNS) — The Book of Jonah is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Because of what is ...

To be a prophet is a heavy, strange ... making allowance for the possibility of a breakthrough takes a discipline of its own. Nineveh is not quite as lost as Jonah has reason to believe, or as his own ...