Resources
A growing list for further study on the parable of the Prodigal Son. Please contact Kristen Verhulst if you have a resource to recommend.
Art
Doug Adams, “Changing Perceptions of Jesus’ Parables through Art History: Polyvalency in Paint,” from Reluctant Partners: Art and Religion in Dialogue, ed. Ena G. Heller (The Gallery at the American Bible Society, 2004)
Robert M. Busic, And Grace Will Lead Me Home: The Jerry Evenrud Collection of Images of the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Lutheran University Press, 2007)
Charles McCollough, The Art of Parables: Reinterpreting the Teaching Stories of Jesus in Word and Sculpture (Copper House, 2008)
Literature
Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy ( Jossey-Bass, 2007)
Margaret Gibson, The Prodigal Daughter: Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood University of Missouri Press, 2008
Ron Hanson, Atticus Harper Perennial 1997
Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life: A Memoir (Grove Press, 1989)
Theology
Kenneth E. Bailey, Jacob and the Prodigal: How Jesus Retold Israel’s Story (InterVarsity Press, 2003)
Kenneth E. Bailey, Finding the Lost: Cultural Keys to Luke 15 (Concordia, 1992)
Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal: A Story of Homecoming (Image Books, 1992)
Miroslav Volf, Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace (Zondervan, 2005)