The story of Jonah reminds us that God is the God of second chances. While our world cancels, God restores. While others ...

Some decisions are too big to be left to chance — like who to marry, where to live, or what you’re going to do with your life. We would never flip a coin on such important things. And yet, in the ...

The books of the Old Testament and New Testament are not the same. While both Testaments are part of the Christian Bible, they contain distinct histories, narratives, and theological focuses. The Old ...

Because Peterson’s book is nothing if not a full-throated allegory of the first five books of the Bible (plus Job and Jonah). Yet he does not deploy the full medieval interpretive scheme.

What we discover upon deep inspection of Jonah's story in the Bible is that the book has very little to do with fish or whales; Jonah evokes themes of depravity, denial, doubt, and obedience both ...

In it I learned that Eliezer of Beaugency, a twelfth century Jewish bible exegete, changed the conventional way we read the story of Jonah’s apparent rejection of God’s willingness to forgive.

A copy of Tyndale's Jonah was found in 1861 and it became better known after the English Quaker Bible scholar, William Fry, reproduced it in facsimile in 1863. Actually many scholars also believe ...

Jonah’s response to God’s declaration of His mercy towards the Ninevites, “and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city …?” is left unanswered in the text.

The principal character in this small prophecy is Jonah, son of Amittai. We read of him in 2 Kings 14:25, in which the additional information is given ...

Whether you know your Scriptures chapter and verse or you rarely take a peek at the Good Book, these Bible facts will ...

I thought I'd offer a little summer series on the book of Jonah to help us reflect on how we are fulfilling God's mission to speak the word of peace to people who live in the empire of war. I invite ...