Devlyn Brooks is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and serves Faith Lutheran Church in ...

Perhaps you would like to spend nine days with St. Jonah and see if God is tugging your heart toward a special calling. Or, maybe you are experiencing a time of difficult duty or intolerance.

From the depths of the sea, from the belly of the whale, today we seek to heed God’s original call in order to arrive, Jonah-like, on dry land. We take that journey towards Nineveh, and there we ...

Jonah wasn’t scared he’d fail. He was scared he’d succeed. God said, “Go to Nineveh.” Jonah said, “No thanks,” and boarded a ...

This is what we would call “a teachable moment.” When Nineveh repented and God didn’t destroy them, Jonah got really angry. God asked him, “Do you do well to be angry?” (Jonah 4:4) ...

Sometime after the fish vomited Jonah onto dry land, the word of the Lord comes to him yet again, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you ...

Jonah’s initial response to God’s call is to catch the first boat out in an attempt to run and hide. Like Jonah, God (or perhaps our conscience if you prefer) ...

This prophet, who hears God’s call and runs in the opposite direction, speaks for the part of all of us that would rather sit, like Jonah, in the shade, drink cool drinks, and mutter about evil ...

God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza, says Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese. ... an empire that included what today we call Iraq and Syria.