The Prodigal God

The Prodigal Son, like Tiger Woods, had a lot of work to do to atone for his sins. At the very least, that boy was going to be shoveling excrement until he paid his father back—with interest. We read the son’s action: “So he got up and went to his father …” But what action would the father take? A spirit of defeatism may be reasonable if it all dep

The true test of religious faith does not take place when things are going well, but “when the world commences its drastic ordeal, when the storms of life crush youth’s exuberant expectancy, when existence, which seemed so affectionate and gentle, changes into a pitiless proprietor who demands everything back.”23 The task is to confront the worst p

How is it then that we’ve come to imagine that Christianity consists primarily in what we do for God? How has this come to be the good news of Jesus? Brennan Manning, The Furious Longing of God

GUIDELINES, NOT RULEBOOKS Christianity has not, and does not profess to have, a detailed political programme for applying “Do as you would be done by” to a particular society at a particular moment. It could not have. It is meant for all men at all times and the particular programme which suited one place or time would not suit another. And, anyhow