A reader shared the following Facebook post (archived) with the question: "Is this meme accurate about Octavia Butler's book 'Parable of the Sower' and predicting the recent LA fires with a new ...

His subject was the parable of the sower as given in St. Luke, viii.: 18: "Take heed, therefore, how ye hear; for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be ...

Ireneaus notes that Luke’s Gospel commences with Zacharias the priest offering a sacrifice to God — oxen were associated with Temple sacrifices in Judaism — and also features the parable of ...

When the great sci-fi writer Octavia Butler wrote her seminal book, Parable of the Sower, in 1993, she imagined 15-year-old protagonist Lauren Olamina starting her Earthseed journal on July 20, 2024.

Three is the sweet spot. It took me three tries to get what Octavia Butler was trying to do with Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. I think. I’m still not sure. But I’ve now read ...

It is in Luke’s Gospel that we read the parable of the Good Samaritan, a foreigner who treats his enemy as his dearest friend. We read the Prodigal Son, and weep as the father runs out to meet ...

That's the premise of Octavia E. Butler's novel Parable of the Sower, which was published in 1993. The novel contains a powerful and poignant vision of the United States of the future, one that ...

On July 20, 2024, Lauren Olamina turned 15. Or, at least, she did in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The 1993 dystopian classic recounts the life and times of a Black girl who shares ...