This story is used by Jesus to illustrate an answer to a question posed by a teacher of the law regarding “what must I do to inherent eternal life?” If you don’t recall this story, please refer to ...

“Who is my neighbor?” is the provocative question posed to Jesus in the Gospel of Luke that leads into the parable of the good Samaritan, a parable for our times. The questioner is a self-righteous ...

There is a quiet pressure that shapes much of modern life, rarely acknowledged but relentlessly looming over us. It is the need to justify ourselves. We curate résumés, photos and social media content ...

The parable of the good Samaritan ends differently without the innkeeper. Arguably, without the innkeeper, the parable falls apart and the good deed falls short. The Samaritan, after all, is no ...

In a very seventeenth-century-coded turn of events, the pope circulated a letter among the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops rebuking (though without naming) the vice president over his ...

Most everyone has heard the story of the Good Samaritan during some point in their life. If asked to recount the story, nearly everyone would say something like “Someone’s hurt on the side of the road ...

(RNS) — When we read the news about people in distress, Jesus is looking over our shoulders and asking what we are going to do for them. (RNS) — A scholar of the law tried to trip up Jesus by asking ...

The Bible teaches us to "love thy neighbor," yet this principle seems increasingly absent today. In fact, if more people loved their neighbors, would the term “Good Samaritan” even need to exist? Yet, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The Bible story of the Good Samaritan is more than a mainstay of Sunday school courses. “Good samaritan” is the catch-all way to describe a do-gooder – someone who stops to change ...

The music will be led by a full orchestra from Holland Christian High School under the direction of Scott VandenBerg and accompanied by Alexis VanZalen, and Calvin University's Awakening group will ...