parables of a prodigal world

In my soon to be released book, Parables of a Prodigal Son: The Theologically Grounded Testimony of an Ordinary Scoundrel , I strive to provide my testimony through the matrix of a proper understanding of the historiocal Christian faith, an understanding gleaned primarily from the scholarship of N.T. Wright. This Weblog will attempt to carry forward the conversation that began in Parables of a Prodigal Son, limited not only to my own life stories but to the stories that are now being played out in the world around us. As in Parables , I will discuss these stories in an effort to make sense from within a historically biblical worldview, a worldview that takes into account the existence of a God that created the universe, who transcends and yet is at all times in loving interaction with it. I will strive to carry forward the conversation in a manner that takes into account the historical fact that a young peasant Jew named Yeshua, executed in first-century Palestine by the Roman authorit...