And yes, Government Cheese takes the Book of Jonah literally in one wild episode that feels as on-the-nose as a pimple (but is well-executed). Suffice it to say, ...

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

The book of Jonah fits in well with Israel’s history. Because of her sin Israel must be punished, and that punishment God would bring about through an enemy.

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 ...

Must be, the midrashic collection Pirkei DeRebbe Eliezer suggests, that this sole survivor dried himself off, lived another 500 years, and went incognito in the Book of Jonah, read in synagogues ...

The Book of Jonah, Harris writes in the preface, “provides much inspiration for our own lives.Lessons range from tolerance, change, appreciating the Divine plan, and social responsibility ...

The book of Jonah is famously enigmatic; Jonah is petulant and ungenerous despite being God’s chosen prophet, and we never really learn why he’s so pissed off.

The book of Jonah tells us that our goal must be reconciliation with our enemies, not their destruction. This is why the church teaches that war must be a last resort, not an early option.