... Perhaps these two men, the priest and the Levite, were so self-obsessed, so narcissistic, that they were simply incapable of human empathy. Maybe they could not bring themselves to care about someone they didn’t know, someone whose death or survival would not affect them either way. In the television series, “The Walking Dead,” there is a scene where two of the “survivors,” those who have not been infected by the deadly virus and who we know as the “good guys,” are taken captive by a man who ...
... hasn’t gone through the proper channels coming into the country? Is it the person of a different political party with whom you disagree on many issues? If we really think about it, often we allow the issues, agendas, and tangibles that we value affect the people that we value. We allow our commodities to influence our companions. Now, this is part of our human reactions. Jesus knows this. Yet he challenges us to a higher ground. Jesus essentially challenges us to value our fellow human beings more than ...
... of the market in creating a society in which there was no real community, but rather only individuals who approached others with the attitude “I give so that you will give back to me.” “What I do for you, I do only as a means to affect your simultaneous, previous or latest service for me. Actually and really, I want and desire only this. To get something from you is my end; my service is the means thereto, which I naturally contribute unwillingly."[2] What if the church serves people, not as a market ...