Emphasis Preaching Journal

George Webber, speaking out of his experience as a pastor in the East Harlem Protestant Parish in New York City, recalls a traffic accident that illumines the meaning of the Good Samaritan parable for contemporary Christians. Don Benedict, one of his colleagues, was standing on the corner of 104th Street and Second Avenue in East Harlem one afternoon when a coal truck ran a red light and hit an old man who was crossing the street.