Posted by Steven Sim on October 19th, 2008 | Categorized as Christianity, Misc Reflections, Religion | Tagged as Henri Nouwen, prodigal son, Rembrandt
From Father Henri Nouwen’s Return of the Prodigal Son
“Often I have asked friends to give me their first impression of Rembrandt’s Prodigal Son. Inevitably, they point to the wise old man who forgives his son: the benevolent patriarch.
“The longer I look at ‘the patriarch’, the clearer it becomes to me that Rembrandt has done something [...]
Posted by Steven Sim on October 19th, 2008 | Categorized as Christianity, Community, Jesus, Misc Reflections, Religion | Tagged as Henri Nouwen
I think I’ve said it a lot of times, and you probably heard it many more times within the Church…in my PKV (varsity christian fellowship) days, the question we asked ourselves and one another was, how can we be “relevant”, especially to the society we live and work in.
I still operate by that question, but [...]
