Many of us remember the dramatic characters in Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan: the traveler who is beaten and left for dead, the priest and Levite who pass by, and the Samaritan who stops to ...

(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 ...

“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 ...