"This is an evil generation that seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah" (Luke 11:29). Gal 4:22-24, 26-27, 31–5:1; Luke 11:29-32 Trappist monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) ...

SAN ANGELO — Being a prophet in the Old Testament was hard. Nobody listened to Jeremiah. Hosea had to marry a prostitute. Ezekiel had to chop his hair off, lay in bed for just over a year and two ...

The Book of Jonah says in Chapter 2: Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish, saying, ‘I called to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol ...

In the Jewish calendar, the holiest day of the year is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement—Oct. 2 this year. It is a fast day. Observant Jews eat and drink nothing between twilight on the eve of Yom ...

Since I’m not a Bible scholar, I’m not very embarrassed about the theological and historical errors I’ve made while blogging. But since I’m an American citizen, I am extremely embarrassed about the ...

The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you” (Jon 3:1). I had to read today’s first reading twice to ...

Hello, fellow wayfarers … Why you should be careful what you pretend to think and to be … What the disappearance of church choirs means for civil society … How my son, turning 18 this week, reminds me ...

The story of Jonah is one of those tales whose main point gets lost in the fantastic details of shipwreck and being swallowed by a whale. The original parable was directed at Jewish tribal ...

At different times in his public preaching, Jesus was challenged by his opponents to give them a sign, a proof that he was sent by God. The common understanding was that he should work a miracle, ...