Articles by James T. Clemons
Dr. James T. Clemons is Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Wesley Theological Seminary, author of What does the Bible say about Suicide? and editor of Sermons on Suicide, Perspectives on Suicide, and Children of Jonah: Personal Stories by Survivors of Suicide Attempts, Forthcoming is The Suicide Funeral: Resources for Sermons, Services and Aftercare, co-edited with Melinda Moore.
By Dr. James T. Clemons
Of all the strange and wondrous stories of the Bible, few are better known than that of Jonah. Even people who have never read the Bible, or attended Sunday school, or listened to sermons, have heard something of Jonah and the whale. But it is just this familiarity and this obsession with the whale that keep us from understanding and appreciating the more profound meanings of this portion of Scripture
