Prodigal God in the Power & Light District

My sons & I aren’t on the highest rung of the cultural ladder—as my wife recently pointed out during a father-son talking-burp contest. But several times a year my older son & I make a concerted effort to evolve a bit by going to the Kansas City Repertory Theater (well, and out to eat beforehand!)

So last Friday, just days after I finished preaching the last in our Prodigal God series, Jeremy & I saw a powerful 2-act play echoing in a very close-to-home way Jesus’ most pivotal parable— called Broke-ology. It was the Kansas City debut of a Broadway play written by a former KCK barbeque joint manager, which tells a summer-long story about an African-American working class family with an increasingly ill father, recently widowed, and his two grown sons. The older son has stayed close to home--and his father--while the other's gone off to start career at an east coast university. As a father of two very different boys myself, I was captivated by the father’s selfless love for his two sons--and with how desperately he longed to bless his sons with a future and with his love– whether or not it meant keeping the family together.

So, from a father-son pair of theater Neanderthals, my 7^th grader and I would like to highly recommend Broke-ology—through March 21^st at the Copaken Stage in the KCP&L District. The one caveat: the older brother in the play swears way more than the one in the Bible!