The works of art are the visual testimonies of wonderfully gifted artists on the nature of forgiveness as expressed in the parable of the prodigal son. In the spirit of learning and sharing with ...

And often, very unsettling. In what follows, I will take one familiar parable—the Prodigal Son—and seek to imagine how it would have sounded in the first century to people who have no idea that Jesus ...

The story follows a teenage boy from the Bronx, played by Chalamet, who is suddenly thrown into the world of a private school in New Hampshire. Violent, gifted, lonely and alienated, he prompts ...

Where is reconciliation needed today in the church community? The best-known title of this parable is The Prodigal Son. This title suggests that the key element is the wayward trajectory of the ...

A certain man had a son, who went away into a far country. There he became miserably poor. The father, however, grew rich, and accumulated much gold and treasure, and many storehouses and elephants.

What took him so long? The story of the Prodigal Son raises the question. Life does not deliver on the young man’s dreams. He is envious of “the pods on which the swine fed,” and still he ...