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 ...

He Should Read the Parable of the Good Samaritan. It's wrong to use human beings as pawns in an apparent political stunt. Steven Greenhut | 6.30.2023 8:00 AM.

Today’s Gospel reading is the parable of the Good Samaritan. Because the story and its message are so familiar, the word “Samaritan” has lost its sting for today’s audience.

The Samaritan would have been seen by the beaten man as other, foreign, different, strange, wrong. Thus, for me, the point of the story is not simply the need to be a “Good Samaritan.” ...

You may well be aware of the New Testament parable of the good Samaritan. But you probably don’t know that there are around 800 ancient Israelite Samaritans still living today.

They indeed have been Good Samaritans. DeSantis might envision himself as one of Jesus’ disciples, but before he gets too carried away he might want to brush up on that parable.

It is the parable of the Good Samarian. It’s found in Luke 10. ... The Good Samaritan ethic, showing kindness to a stranger in need, has become a hallmark of our civilization.

A good Samaritan, according to the Oxford Lerner’s Dictionary is, “a person who gives help and sympathy to people who need it.” They can also protect others from harm. But this parable of ...

And as the parable of the Good Samaritan shows, it is an emotion that can be triggered by anyone, at any time, if we are – like the Samaritan – ready to be so moved.

In the study, inspired by the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan, 40 seminary students were split into groups and told to prepare a speech either about the parable or about jobs in which they ...