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The prodigal’s return looks more like a strategy than a wholehearted conversion.
March 30, Lent 4c (Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32)
There is no resolution to the prodigal son story, only the resonance of the father’s words.
September 11, Ordinary 24C (Luke 15:1–10)
Sometimes in ministry you lose precious things.
What comes in between being lost and being found?
March 27, Lent 4C (Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32)
Sometimes anger is a window into what needs to be mended and healed.
December 19, Advent 4C (Luke 1:39-45, 46-55)
It’s hard to believe in an enchanted world.
The Return of the Prodigal Son, by Marie Romero Cash
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
art selection and comment by John Kohan
It's complicated to lose things.
September 15, Ordinary 24C (Luke 15:1-10)
Not everything that’s lost can be found.
Knowing and preaching the Jewish Jesus
“If to get a good message you need to make Judaism look bad, then you don’t have a good message.”
Elizabeth Palmer interviews Amy-Jill Levine
March 31, Lent 4C (Luke 15:1–3, 11b–32)
What if we are the Pharisees?
The wall my daughter can’t get past
I’ve stopped trying to climb over it or knock it down. Now I just sit there.
by Debie Thomas
Taking the Bible seriously means reading it figurally
What scripture means is not reducible to what it once meant.
Everybody counts. Even the Lollards.
A counting book that retells Jesus’ parables and a Reformation-themed alphabet book are among my favorite new children’s books.
Everybody counts. Even the Lollards.
A counting book that retells Jesus’ parables and a Reformation-themed alphabet book are among my favorite new children’s books.
Two refreshing new books place the storyteller within the story he tells.
by Greg Carey