Luke 15: 1-3, 11-32
Sunday, September 28, 2020
Family Appreciation Weekend, Week 7, and the 30th Sunday of COVID Time
I’m not sure two years makes a tradition,
but I’ve been preaching on the story of the Prodigal Son,
on family weekend
for many a year now,
across a couple of institutions.
so, let’s go ahead and call it one, I think.
And you can read into this as much as you like.
though I surely hope you parents don’t think of the Bucknell experience,
as “squandering a fortune on dissolute living”
As I’ve mentioned before:
I hold these students here (at chapel) in high esteem,
in no small part,
due to their making much healthier,
and sensible life and social choices,
than I did during my own college years.
in this strange moment of digital connection –
if you’re on Zoom,
and feeling like it,
you can even ask my own parents about
my prodigal days.
Or you can check in with my very own younger brother,
and ask him how well our lives and relationships map,
onto these two brothers,
about neither of whom there’s much good to say.
I’m imagining that this story is familiar to you.
It may be the best story.
