Today we read the parable of the Sower, which is a very familiar parable, known even to people who are not Christians: A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and ...

Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 years ago, in 1993. This Afrofuturistic book about a dystopian America set in our time now seems positively prophetic — and a new ...

Starting today and the following two Sundays, the Gospel will focus on Jesus’ parables of the Kingdom of Heaven, found in Matthew 13. This week, we’ll hear the Parable of the Sower and Seeds. Next ...

Toshi Reagon, the genre-busting folk-gospel-rock musician, first encountered Octavia Butler's Afro-futuristic "Parable of the Sower" in the late 1990s. She was shocked by the novel's prescience. "When ...

With the Doomsday Clock ticking ever closer to midnight and threats of nuclear war and illness outbreaks, things are a little scary right now, globally. In 1993, science-fiction writer Octavia E.

Some of the deep truths of God are presented so simply in Scripture that we often fail to appreciate their significance. We read of our Lord’s parable of the sower, how he would use a graphic ...

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Leonard J. DeLorenzo talks about how Christmas is not only a time of great consolation, but the beginning of the great decision.