In the first of two programmes on the parables of Jesus, Sean Fletcher meets Christians inspired by one of his most famous ...

“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 ...

(The Conversation) — Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary. (The Conversation) — The Bible story of the Good Samaritan is more ...

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, ...

Most of us remember it as Jesus’ Parable of the Good Samaritan, in which he described what it means to be a good neighbor. But, surprisingly, he did not use the word “good” of either the Samaritan or ...

Salvation Army volunteers organize and distribute aid for the Kerrville community after deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country. (Photo courtesy of the Salvation Army) (RNS) — A scholar of the law ...

Good Samaritan Hospital (Vincennes, Ind.). Good Samaritan Hospital is a 232-bed community healthcare facility with more than 1,900 employees. Founded on the Good Samaritan parable in the Bible, the ...

The acquittal of Daniel Penny by a Manhattan jury is a relief, and not only because my teenage children ride the subways alone to travel home from school at night (“Merry Christmas, Daniel Penny” by ...

A mural outside St. Jude Thaddeus Church in Silao, Mexico, quotes the Good Samaritan story: 'Go and do likewise.' Enrique López-Tamayo Biosca/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY ...