A Lenten Meditation - Peter Rollins' The Prodigal Father

Peter Rollins book, The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales, has been supplemented with seven new parables for Lent. In Pete's own words, this collection of original parables, "represents my own attempt to explore and testify to the impossible Event housed in faith. In that sense they are deeply personal and relative to my own life." With permission, I share one of the parables.

The Prodigal Father

There was once a rich and kindly father who lived with his two sons in a lav...