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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

KINGSTON – Be a Good Samaritan, and you’ll make your part of the world a better place – no matter where it may be. History teacher Brian Kaschak used the parable from the Gospel of Luke in his charge ...

SACRAMENTO – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to be getting a bit big for his britches. He’s not only imagining himself as the nation’s next president as he competes for the Republican nomination, ...

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 ...

In the Book of Luke, chapter 10, Jesus told the “Parable of the Good Samaritan.” Is it time for a rewrite? This was the story of a man who was robbed, beaten and left for dead. A priest and a Levite ...

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 ...