Still, although Simancas felt he had been swallowed, humpback whales have filter feeders which cannot completely eat someone ...

The Book of Jonah, however, is written as a historical tale with a historical prophet mentioned in II Kings 14:25 and confirmed to have existed by Jesus Christ in Matthew 12:40-41. Christ here ...

The practice of donning ashes is one of them. In the Bible we are told that when the prophet Jonah pronounced God’s wrath on the city of Nineveh for its “wickedness,” likely because of the worship of ...

Joppa is, after all, the place from which the ancient prophet Jonah embarked on his ill-fated journey by sea to Tarsus (Spain), an adventure recorded in the biblical book that bears his name.

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?

Sometimes when I read the Bible, I can see a parallel between things that happened during biblical times and what is happening in our world today. For example, at my church we recently finished a ...