Steven Sim

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God, Our Father and Mother…(4)

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 [...]