The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the Sower — a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is “Make America ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted ...

Now, he tells the parable of the Sower to those “inside” his family—his disciples—to illustrate that by hearing the word of God and accepting it, they provide a rich soil for it to produce a plentiful ...

And he said to them, 'Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? The sower sows the word. And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when ...

The grave of Butler, who died in 2006 at 58, is marked by a footstone etched with a quote from “Parable of the Sower,” among her most famous novels. Since the fires began last week ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for the fourth Sunday before Lent in Year C is Luke 5.1–11, the story of the miraculous catch of fish, as we jump forward into Jesus’ ministry before returning to ...

Summary: This assembly, which is suitable for an act of collective worship, focuses on a parable that Jesus told ... the New Testament in the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 15. A father and his two ...

Explore the turning point in Jesus' ministry when many of His followers walked away in John 6:66. Discover the deeper cost of ...

Good day. Note: For further reading, consider Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow” (2010), Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” (1993) and “Parable of the Talents” (1998), and Margaret Atwood ...