Contagious Kindness

Contagious Kindness

Writing in Scientific American, a Stanford professor describes a contagious condition he hopes will grow and infect the general population as a whole. He refers to the infectious and contagious nature of kindness. When we observe someone doing kindness, we are nudged to be kind ourselves. The most famous example of this is the compassion shown by a Samaritan man when he stepped over ethnic and cultural boundaries to help someone in need – the familiar and celebrated story of the Good Samaritan. Based on Galatians 5:1, 13-24 and Luke 10:25-37.