Prodigal Son

The story of the prodigal son always confused me. Perhaps I always took the wrong lesson from the story, because to me the story is less about redemption and more about that it’s okay to play favorites with your children. Coming from a family that believed in hard work, if one of us had had squandered any inheritance on wine, women and song, I’m not sure that my father would have had a celebration for our return. How is the story not about always liking the younger brother over the older brother (which was certainly the argument of the older son). Sometimes that Jesus fellow threw me a curve that I just couldn’t hit.

There are no prodigal sons in today’s podcast: just good music that could be used in a celebration – let’s kill the fatted calf and listen to New Order, echo and the Bunnymen, Jesus and Mary Chain, the Cure, Marcia Ball, Son Seals, Donna Summer, Blood Orange, Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Gene Loved Jezebel, John Martyn, and Songs:Ohia.

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