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 ...

Q&A with Jewish scholar Steven Fine on the history of a biblical minority. The Good Samaritan shows up in Jesus’ parable in Luke 10 without much explanation of where he came from. And then he exits ...

However, unless you are a Bible reader, you might not know that the phrase is based on a parable (teaching story) told by Jesus. Therefore, we will read the verses to garner an understanding of 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 former Archbishop reviews The Political Samaritan: How Power Hijacked a Parable by Nick Spencer. By Rowan Williams After the gunman had slaughtered his victims at the church in Sutherland Springs ...

This Sunday’s Gospel recounts the parable of the Good Samaritan. It also puts it in a context. The context is a test. A “scholar of the law” asked Jesus what he had to do to “inherit eternal life.” ...

After the gunman had slaughtered his victims at the church in Sutherland Springs in Texas, he was himself shot by an armed member of the public determined to prevent his escape. The multiple horrors ...

The arrival here of one of the few extant copies of the Samaritan Bible in the original, a hand-written manuscript of the Hebrew Pentateuch dating from the 15th century, has been announced by Rabbi ...