Out of print, but buy it from abebooks.co.uk
Somehow I found this to be less than the sum of its parts.
There are two tracks within the book, alternating chapters between them.
One is an imaginative reflection on a Pharisee (Reuben) being challenged as he listens to Jesus tell the parable of the prodigal Son, and ending in a family reunion of his own. It was fairly predictable but not a bad way of giving a different way to open up the message of the parable.
The other uses the metaphor of “Home” as a way of exploring mission, and how the sense of belonging that we might associate with “Home” is something we should offer people within Church.
Maybe it was reading this towards the end of the third COVID lockdown in England with the significant moving of goal posts on our relationship with “Home”, as we have worked from Home, churched from Home, and generally everything-ed from Home that it was just the wrong moment to deploy the metaphor, I am perhaps a little tired of being at Home right now?
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