I recently re-read the story many call “Jonah and the whale” and I could not help but compare Jonah and Nineveh with the Philippines. Filipinos today are much like Jonah when it comes to calling out ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Darth Vader is Luke’s father. Bruce Willis is a ghost. In a narrative twist millennia before those cinematic classics, the rabbis offered their own: The King of Nineveh is actually Pharaoh of Egypt.

Find today’s readings here. While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of ...

Often unnoticed as the tale of Jonah being swallowed by a whale is read in synagogue on Yom Kippur is a much smaller animal. Jonah, “Yonah” in Hebrew, means a dove. As the two Israeli scholars Menahem ...