Gayle L. Goudy

Tag: Reconciliation

  • The Other Brother: The Prodigal Son’s Hardest Lesson (Luke 15)

    James B. Janknegt’s The Two Sons retells Luke 15 in contemporary imagery and brings the older brother to the foreground. This video shows how the painting reframes the Prodigal Son as a test of grace, resentment, and reconciliation for those still in the father’s house.

  • “The Two Sons”

    Reflection • Interprets Janknegt’s modern retelling as a map of sin, return, and the father’s jubilant grace in everyday American scenes. Centers the older brother’s self-righteous refusal as the parable’s enduring test: will we join mercy—or choose exclusion?

    Originally published in Words of Grace, Grace Church Cathedral (Charleston, South Carolina), March 2025.

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