The Man with the Golden Arm
On May 11, 2018, eighty-one-year-old James Harrison sat in a reclining chair at the Town Hall Blood Donor Centre in Sydney, Australia, and rolled up...
This is a contemporary on generosity and sacrifice, drawing on Luke 6:38.
On May 11, 2018, eighty-one-year-old James Harrison sat in a reclining chair at the Town Hall Blood Donor Centre in Sydney, Australia, and rolled up his sleeve for the last time. Cameras flashed. Nurses gathered. After 1,173 blood plasma donations spanning sixty years, Australian policy required him to stop. Harrison's story began in 1951, when a fourteen-year-old boy woke from major chest surgery in a hospital bed, alive only because strangers had given thirteen liters of blood.…
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