On the Road to Peace: Jonah is like us at our best and our worst. Activists can do great public good yet at the same time can be so violent.

God asks Jonah to meditate upon his feeling for the gourd, for all the interconnected layers of life. This feeling — this concern — this compassion, if you will, is what links God and Jonah.

University Archives & Special Collections proudly announces the recent acquisition of a first edition of Zora Neale Hurston’s debut novel “Jonah’s Gourd Vine” (1934). Hurston (January 7, 1891 – ...

Since Jonah built a hut to protect himself from the sun, why was it necessary for God to “prepare a gourd, and make it to come over Jonah that it might be a shadow over his head”?

In the King James Version of The Holy Bible, Jonah finds himself scorching as the sun beats down upon his head. Jonah 4:6 reads: "And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over ...

What makes Cleveland Curator William Wixom overjoyed with his new sculptural group is that it also shows Jonah in idyllic repose under the gourd vine, and includes a freestanding orant, probably ...

Jonah sought refuge from the heat under the leaves of this gourd plant when later a worm came along and ruined it. The loss of the shady plant greatly upset the prophet.

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Otherwise, we are much like Jonah: “gourd heads” who call ourselves Christians but fail to realize the importance of our high calling.

Ballard said the Jonah made of gourds catches the attention of those milling past at gourd shows. He keeps a King James Bible handy with the gourd verse highlighted.

Jonah, the failed prophet, is the star of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which begins Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, at sundown. Writer Ted Roberts considers repentence and forgiveness and sacred gourds.