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 ...

Now the word of the L-RD came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying, (Jonah 1:1) “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” (Jonah 1:2) But ...

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 ...

One of the inspirational parts of our tradition for me is that as I move through life and as times change, different Biblical personalities resonate with me. For many years, I felt a great kinship ...

Irony. All of us have heard the word before, but what is irony? Irony is the term given to the use of words to convey a meaning that is opposite of its literal meaning. One of the best examples of ...

So, this is the last time I'm writing about Jonah -- I promise. Maybe. It's just that his story is so chock-full of things that smack me between my eyes.

"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) ...