We needed Elijah because he knew how to end a drought and bring the rain. (See 1 Kings.) We no longer need the prophet because we have El Niño. Of course, El Niño is Jesus.

Elijah shows up, warns Ahab that God is sending a drought, and immediately disappears into the wilderness, taking refuge in a wadi, one of the riverbed canyons common in Israel.In an unexplained ...

From the minute I could read I was hooked on stories. Before that, I remember looking at the pictures in a book and making up my own stories.

But after awhile the brook dries up. At that point, God sends Elijah to the village of Zarephath and tells him that a widow there will feed him. He finds her as she’s gathering firewood. By all rights ...

In the Bible, Elijah does not die (he goes up to heaven in a chariot – see 2 Kings, chapter 2). Therefore he is the prophet our tradition assumes will return to announce the coming of the Messiah.