It didn't take me more than two or three seconds after reading the parable to figure out that I am the rich man. (in my case, the rich woman)

The idea of a teleidoscope grew out of the Chico City Council's expressed interest in upgrading the Park Avenue corridor, the Jesus Center's desire to be a good neighbor given our central location on Park Avenue, along with the Center's enthusiasm for seeing transformed lives among Chico's hungry and homeless

Jesus once told a story about a king who commends his subjects because they helped him when he was hungry, thirsty, without clothes, in prison or sick. The subjects professed ignorance about having done any of these things to him. The king replied that when they had helped the “least among you,” that is, those in need, they had met him.

Walking through the parking lot of a church I was visiting, I saw a gleaming BMW with the Christian fish symbol on its trunk. Having spent years studying Greek, I knew the symbol well. The Greek word "ichthus" or "fish" in English

The Good Samaritan parable in Luke's gospel has a long-standing place in the Hall of Good Stories of Compassion. Every one knows that the word "Samaritan" is a domesticated term - one that in today's world would hardly induce the loathing its utterance brought forth among Jesus' hearers

I had a new experience as Director of the Jesus Center: joining with the City of Chico Code Enforcement team, the Police and Mental Health Councilors from Butte County Behavioral Health to serve an eviction notice to people living amid the star thistles and sage brush along Comanche Creek.