Your child has gone silent. You've prayed. You've reached out. And still — nothing. There is a way forward. It doesn't require your child to change first.
Join the Free WebinarThe holidays come and go. You watch other families together and wonder what you did wrong. You replay conversations, searching for the moment things broke. You've apologized — maybe more than once — and heard nothing back.
You love your child. You haven't stopped. But you don't know how to reach them, and every attempt seems to make things worse.
This is one of the most painful experiences a parent can carry. And for Christian parents, it often comes with an added weight: the silence of God on something that matters this much.
"When he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.'"
— Luke 15:17–19 (NIV)
Most of us read the Parable of the Prodigal Son and see ourselves as the waiting father — arms open, scanning the horizon for a child who left. But what if that's not where you are in the story?
What if the estranged Christian parent is the prodigal — the one who needs to come to their senses, recognize what their posture has cost, and begin the long walk back?
That reframe is the foundation of this work. It doesn't ask you to change what you believe. It asks you to come home to the father's posture — toward the child who is already watching to see if you will.
The theological grounding for this comes from the work of Dr. Ronald Pierce and Dr. Karen Keen in Christlike Acceptance Across Deep Difference (Baker Academic, 2025) — which establishes that a change in posture toward a person requires no revision of how you read Scripture.
Tim Goode is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has spent years sitting with families navigating some of the most painful ruptures a relationship can sustain. Estrangement is among the hardest.
He came to this work through clinical practice and through his own faith — and through experiences he carries personally. He knows this terrain not only as a professional, but as someone who has walked it.
The framework he teaches is theologically grounded, clinically sound, and built for parents who don't want to choose between their convictions and their child.
Licensed Professional Counselor · South Carolina
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