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Can we reach the sinner inside and ask what keeps us from coming to the table?
by Gary Percesepe
The prodigal’s return looks more like a strategy than a wholehearted conversion.
by Peter S. Hawkins
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.
The Elder Son
September 11, Ordinary 24C (Luke 15:1–10)
Sometimes in ministry you lose precious things.
by Charisse R. Tucker
What comes in between being lost and being found?
by Mihee Kim-Kort
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.
by Marlena Proper Deida Graves
The Return of the Prodigal Son, by Marie Romero Cash
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
art selection and comment by John Kohan
Atonement
by Sofia M. Starnes
It's complicated to lose things.
by Melissa Earley
September 15, Ordinary 24C (Luke 15:1-10)
Not everything that’s lost can be found.
Statues
by Thomas Schmidt
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
Prodigal bipolar
by Marjorie Maddox
March 31, Lent 4C (Luke 15:1–3, 11b–32)
What if we are the Pharisees?
by Justo L. González
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.
by Jason Micheli
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.
by Elizabeth Palmer