In Lost and Found, Jody Serey and I have attempted to preserve the open-ended nature of parables, which invite the hearer into a new world of possibilities. Like other kinds of art, parables try to teach us by seduction, by luring us with their premises into new conclusions, new ways of thinking.

Lost and Found is the story of the “prodigal son,” or better, the parable of the two lost sons, told in the form of a musical set in Palestine in the first century. Commissioned by the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows and first performed there at Youth Sing Praise in 1987, Lost and Found can be performed by casts of about 20 to 70 or 80. It’s lessons are simple but profound: all are lost, but all are found, and the many walls and stumbling stones we have "set in spite" between us have to come down. It is the gospel of the new age: either we live together, or we die alone.