Richard Herring on the parable of the Prodigal Son
He has an alternative reading of it which makes far more sense.
If you’re rusty on your New Testament, it’s in Luke 15:11-32 (sample version from comparativereligion.com).
Then check out Richard Herring’s take on it. The punchline is a killer.
comparativereligion.com doesn’t talk about the elder son, incidentally, which seems to me to be spectacularly missing the point. I skipped over their analysis of the two parables once they’d mentioned that they weren’t going to mention one of the biggest differences between the two.