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PRAYER: Jonah, by Walter Brueggemann
From Great Prayers of the Old Testament And he said: I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, And He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice. For You cast me...
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SCRIPTURE: The Book of Jonah, by David Plotz
From Good Book At last, a minor prophet who’s not minor at all. It’s been seven books and a trip to Israel since I’ve read a Bible story that I was familiar with. The last one was Solomon threatening...
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PROPHETS: Jonah, by Harold Bloom
From The Shadow of a Great Rock It may seem frivolous to speak of a favorite book in the Bible but mine is Jonah, by far. A sly masterpiece of four brief chapters, Jonah reverberates in Herman...
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POETRY: Jonah
The Song of Jonah in the Whale’s Belly Michael Drayton In grief and anguish of my heart, my voice I did extend, Unto the Lord, and he thereto, a willing ear did lend: Even from the deep and darkest...
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THE HOLY SPIRIT: The Sign of Jonah and a New Monasticism, by Jonathan...
From On Heart, One Soul, Mary Forman, editor I am a representative of the Rutba House, a new monastic community in Durham, North Carolina. The celebration of one hundred fifty years at Saint John’s is...
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JONAH: The Inside-Out Messiah
I was just sitting there, innocently enough, and the thought popped into my head: Jesus creates a miracle by making a little fish go a long way; Jonah, on the other hand, creates a miracle by making a...
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STORY: The Story of Jonah, by Leonard Michaels
From Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible (I studied under Leonard Michaels at the University of California (Berkeley). He was the kind of professor that made even a particularly...
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SERMON: Father Mapple’s Sermon On Jonah, by Herman Melville
From Moby-Dick Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense. “Star board gangway, there! side away to larboard – larboard gangway to...
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FORGIVENESS: Jonah’s Legacy, by Janet Howe Gaines
From Forgiveness in a Wounded World We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such...
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SAINTS: Jonah — The Sign Of God’s Mercy, by Greg Friedman
From: Lent With The Saints Jonah 3:1-10; Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19; Luke 11:29-32 Most of us know the story of Jonah and the whale. But today’s readings give us the rest of the story. Jonah’s mission...
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