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b'Six shameful acts in the Parable of the Prodigal Son reveal that God is Love\'s Fool, Glynn suggests respectfully...\\n"The Prodigal Son is, when understood, an insightful parable about the nature of the Christian and Jewish God, whom I respectfully call \\u2018Love\\u2019s Fool\\u2019. \\n\\xa0\\nIt is the quality and actions of costly love, portrayed by the father character in the parable, which informs us about the nature of Jesus\\u2019 God.\\xa0God is not an old man with two sons.\\xa0God is the love that the fictitious old man exhibits.\\xa0It is a love that can withstand insult and humiliation.\\xa0It is a love that includes offenders.\\xa0It is a love deemed foolish.\\xa0It is a love that values the relationships between people above society\\u2019s and religion\\u2019s conventions."\\n\\nText and video links at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=533&id=1039'