Tag: Samaritan

  • Well — Jacob, inheritance, and family separation

    Well — Jacob, inheritance, and family separation

    The assumed division of rivals is treated as impenetrable and impossible to resolve. But it is often only a failure of imagination.

  • In the Borderlands

    In the Borderlands

    The borderlands are as much a character in the story this week as any of the people. What we make of that is essential.

  • Living Waters

    Living Waters

    Growing up on Lake Huron, in the northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan, the living water of the Great Lakes is persistently present. Like a slumbering beast you knew would awaken. Not to us by the shore, by the harbor where fishing boats and freighters would dock. But out a few miles from…

  • Compassion

    The physical nature of the Compassionate Samaritan story can reveal a deep-rooted internal struggle in all of us.