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 ...

The biblical story of Jonah has always seemed rather fantastical; after all, who could survive in the belly of a whale? Since when do whales swallow people? Well, since this week, apparently; a man ...

It's unlikely, in the annals of Biblical screen adaptations, that a prophet has been played by a talking piece of asparagus before. Such a thing, however, is par for the course for "VeggieTales," the ...

“The Book of Jonah,” a beautifully fulfilled debut novel from Joshua Max Feldman, grapples with one of the most unanswerable questions of existence: How do you know when you are “called”? How do you ...

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 ...

Often unnoticed as the tale of Jonah being swallowed by a whale is read in synagogue on Yom Kippur is a much smaller animal. Jonah, “Yonah” in Hebrew, means a dove. As the two Israeli scholars Menahem ...

(AP) - Biblical stories like Jonah and the whale would be required reading for Texas public schools students under proposals that are putting the state at the center of another contentious wrangling ...