John Andrew Gallery: The Gospel Model of Fatherly Love

I got to talk with fre­quent Friends Jour­nal author John Andrew Gallery this week. His lat­est arti­cle for us explores a gospel mod­el of par­ent­hood. I most appre­ci­at­ed his take that many of the fig­ures in the para­bles were not nec­es­sar­i­ly metaphor­i­cal fill-ins for God but faith­ful peo­ple already liv­ing in the pow­er of the king­dom. I’ll be chew­ing on his take on the prodi­gal son’s for­giv­ing father for awhile.

There’s a page in Friends Jour­nal with oth­er recent author chats. You can sub­scribe to the Friends Jour­nal YouTube chan­nel and watch inter­views going back to 2011 all our Quak­er Author Chat playlist.