When I think about the audience that The Welcoming Door by Kenny Kemp appeases, though it is overtly Latter-day Saint, I think that a chord can be strummed in the hearts of anyone who is a parent. Riddled with symbolism, Kemp expounds on his fictional version of the story of the Prodigal Son from the Bible. It is more than a Biblical story. Entering the realm of this genre that we call “scripture based,” Kemp takes such a short verse of scripture from the Bible and expands it to emphasize a timeless lesson that so many parents may face with the loss of a wayward child. That lesson, as Jeshua tells Eli, is that: “there is no justice, there is no mercy, there is only love” (Kemp 70). The overarching theme I believe Kemp wants his audience to recognize is love and its association with Christ. But there are also other teachings throughout, though this list isn’t an exhaustive list, they include: faith, the father-like relationship people can have to a Heavenly Father, prayer, and the detrimental role of tradition. As a reader with an LDS background, one can identify that each of these teachings are based in Latter-day Saint theology, and as an LDS audience, can think about these concepts in a new light as we identify with the sorrow of the father of the prodigal son and rejoice in the father Eli's joy as he finds hope and meaning in the parable the Savior teaches.