prodigal son

Before we meet any characters in “The Family Stone,” Thomas Bezucha’s 2005 holiday dramedy about a close-knit extended family meeting their prodigal son’s uptight new girlfriend for the first time, a cellphone rings.

In a troubled time before their rift, my husband, by his own account, had been financially irresponsible, reckless, a prodigal son.

Wayne Rooney was greeted like the prodigal son, remembered as the 16-year-old who electrified Goodison Park with that famous goal against Arsenal rather than the local boy who left his beloved club to seek success and ending up as Manchester United's all-time record goalscorer.

The Dallas Morning News ran excerpts from the curriculum, which includes lessons on the Sermon on the Mount, the "prodigal son" Bible story, and explicitly teaches that "Jesus rose from the dead," treating the myth of the resurrection as historical fact.

A video of the earliest piece on view, “Prodigal Son,” from 2010, shows the artist pinning his father’s Cuban military medals to his naked chest.