How a Father & Son Learned to Forgive

This fall marks the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March on Washington, D.C., when Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan called on African-American men to come together to promote family values and strengthen black families. But any father, even those not aligned with the politics of a Louis Farrakhan, would do well to read Prodigal Father Wayward Son: A Path to Reconciliation, a new book co-written by Sam Keen and his son Gifford. The book finds a fresh way to address the pain of broken bonds between fathers and sons, which is the central crisis driving most of the social and cultural problems in the Western world. Fathers are like the alternator in a car; when they break down, the entire family system collapses. And in the last five decades the alternator has broken down.