Most of us cannot imagine swimming with whales, much less encountering one up close and personal. However, that was Jonah’s experience, and the recent experience of a man named Rainer Schimpf . 267 palabras más
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A SIGN TO THE WORLD
Today’s Gospel Reading: Luke 11:29-32 – 1st WEEK OF LENT: Wednesday, 13 March 209
The story of Jonah reminds us of the Scriptural origin of Lent, the forty days of Penance. 290 palabras más
Jonah’s Bad Trip: A Lenten Meditation
”Lent is a time set aside to reorient ourselves, to clarify our minds, to slow down, recover from distraction, to focus on the values of God’s kingdom and on the value he has set on us and on our neighbors.” … 1.951 palabras más
PULL
Every week a little girl comes for her Guided Learning lesson and each lesson, she struggles to get into the room because she can’t open the door. 156 palabras más
Nineveh Repented
Jonah 3:1-10
Nineveh, the heart of the the great Assyrian kingdom, repented at the preaching of Jonah. It was unexpected – even by the preacher. Yet it happened. 153 palabras más
review
Much like the biblical city, Henrietta Rose-Innes novel Nineveh (2011) depicts the fall of man due to his own ‘great wickedness’. This wickedness, particularly of a white man, is the direct result of his greed for wealth despite the vast environmental consequences his lush new complex has on the surrounding ecosystem and by extension the black communities that live nearby. 248 palabras más
