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The Father Who Runs: Reading the Parable of the Prodigal Son
A slow reading of Luke 15:11–32, attending to the father as much as to his two sons.
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Remembering the scholar whose Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate, shaped Western Christianity for centuries.
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