On a handful of occasions, a work of art has riveted my attention. As a college student, a painting in the Butler Museum of Art titled In Flanders Fields Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow by Robert Vonnoh had that effect as I pondered young girls picking scarlet red poppies in what had once been a killing field. For Henri J.M. Nouwen, it was a portion of Rembrandt's painting of The Return of the Prodigal Son that had this same effect. Eventually he spent several days meditating upon the original and out of this and … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Return of the Prodigal Son