The 7-and-a-half-foot statue of Melville showcases him calmly standing in a temple of ribs, with swirls of the ocean depicted ...

Some art discoveries enrich and expand the work of a great ... the Good Shepherd and the prophet Jonah. Fear of ... not until the Bible was translated into English did it become a whale.

In the interviews after the humpback whale spat him back out, Simancas does not seem like a petulant Jonah; he’s even generous toward the whale’s intentions in scooping him out of the water.

In the whale, in whatever trials we might face, God is still there. We can't learn the lesson later; ... The Jonah art is meant to be amusing, I’m sure.