A few times a month, community columnists weigh in on matters of faith and values. The Faith and Values column appears Mondays, and features retired Methodist minister Paul Graves, of Sandpoint; ...

Christians need to admit that we’ve read many parts of the Bible as negative texts toward Jews. Since World War II, many of us have engaged in ongoing, serious discussions with Jewish folks to ...

The obvious lesson we can immediately gather from the parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10,25,37) is that we should have true empathy and compassion with everyone, irrespective of how those involved ...

Drawing on the Good Samaritan parable, Pastor Todd Gaddis urges Christians to care for others, overcome prejudice and fear, ...

Who among us hasn’t heard the parable of the Good Samaritan, the focus of today’s Gospel? It’s often called Jesus’ “most famous” parable, which always amuses me. As if there is some sort of ...

“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 ...

We no longer live in a world shaped by the assumptions of Christendom. This is a post-Christian era, and sadly we are seeing ...

The parable of the Good Samaritan (cf. Luke 10:25-37) could be called a story of one ordinary person speaking to another. Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti not surprisingly recalls it within the ...

Scripture for Life: Here, in the middle of Luke's Gospel, we get the parable that explains the motive of Jesus' mission. When God sees suffering and need, the divine response is intimate, unbounded ...

The Parable of the Good Samaritan tells a lesson people often take at face value: the imperative to ensure that ethical conduct goes beyond biases. Several psychological experiments, however, have ...