It is no exaggeration when scholars say that the parable of the prodigal son is a priceless gem. It is not a simple simile with just one theme. It’s a cross-section of life with all its complexity.

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.

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 ...

David Brooks reflects on the parable of the Prodigal Son. You know it, right? Jesus told it to illustrate what the Kingdom of Heaven is like, and tells the story about a young man who asks his ...

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 ...

The Prodigal Son parable has many notable aspects to it. I wish to point up two of them. First, the figure of the prodigal presents less than what we might hope for. That is, the motive for ...

Metro's treatment of the Parable of the Prodigal Son (from Luke XV) is a bigscale spectacle, making overwhelmingly lavish use of sets, props, CinemaScoped Eastman Color and a well-populated cast.

This thing about people shifting from one phone network to another is playing out very biblically, if you remember the saga of the prodigal son. While every phone network is bending backwards to ...

I'm specifically referring to Luke, Chapter 15, verses 11-24, the Parable of the Prodigal Son. There's a similar story in Buddhism in Saddharmapundarika (Lotus) Sutra 4. If anyone knows of a ...