The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Lent 4 in Year C is the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15.1–3 and 11b–32, though it is perhaps as well called the parable of the loving father, or the ...

I was reading Luke, Chapter 15, for the thousandth time, but suddenly saw something I’d missed in 20 years of preaching about the prodigal son. The father let him go. The father didn’t chase his son.