SAN ANGELO — Being a prophet in the Old Testament was hard. Nobody listened to Jeremiah. Hosea had to marry a prostitute. Ezekiel had to chop his hair off, lay in bed for just over a year and two ...

This is Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder’s depiction of the giant fish coughing Jonah onshore to let him complete the mission God had given him. Brueghel lived from 1568-1625. (Courtesy Photo) ...

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 ...

If you've been to shows at Sight & Sound, you know they are not intimate affairs. Big is what Sight & Sound is all about. Well, big and the Bible. The Christian theater tells stories from the Bible -- ...

Many Christians are inclined to interpret the story of Jonah in the Old Testament as an allegory that was never meant to be understood as actual history. However, allegories or parables in the Bible ...

The Book of Jonah is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Because of what is happening in the Middle East right now, the Book of Jonah is especially relevant to us today. Jonah is not a children's ...

The story of Jonah and the Whale can be found in the Old Testament and tells the tale of an Israelite called upon by God to be a prophet who refused to accept his divine mission and left on a sea ...

Clive Lawton tells the story of two of the most famous Old Testament prophets. In this first part, he starts with Isaiah and the story of Jonah and the whale - or should it be a fish? At one level ...

In the second part of his exploration of four of the prophets of the Old Testament, Clive Lawton tells the story of Elijah, a miracle-working, thundering, wild-eyed and somewhat anti-social itinerant.