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Confessions of a Prodigal Son
A man who went looking for himself everywhere except home. From a South African boyhood, through the corridors of Brussels and the spiritual counterculture of Scandinavia, to the Orthodox Church and a 360-year-old farm on Fyn.
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Confessions of a Prodigal Son
Paul Lloyd Robson
Foreword by Jonathan Pageau
The book
He took his inheritance and left. This is the road back.
The parable of the prodigal son is usually read in a few minutes. Living it took me most of my adult life. I left the faith of my childhood and set out after freedom, success and spiritual experience, and for a while each of them seemed to deliver.
This book is a confession, not a success story. It tells the far country as it was: the ambition, the borrowed spiritualities, the brotherhoods that promised everything, and the men I followed and the ones I failed. It tells, too, the moment a man "comes to himself", and the long, unglamorous walk home.
Home turned out to be the Church, a marriage, children, and a farm on Fyn. Not as a reward, but as the place a son is received.
“This is a story of a man who has found what is calling all men to life: a life of virtue. I invite you to discover with him what is possible in manhood.”
Jonathan Pageau, Founder of The Symbolic World
· from the foreword
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For Kindle and other e-readers.
Audiobook
Read by the author, recorded at home on the farm.
Where the road led
No man walks the road home alone.
Out of this story grew Path of Manliness: a brotherhood of Christian men who meet online every week and in person at gatherings, building strength, stability and fellowship together.
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