In Matthew 13, a chapter full of parables, Jesus tells the parable of the Sower of the seed. It is a story of a farmer, scattering seed which fell upon four different types of soil; ...

Octavia E. Butler's apocalyptic climate-change novel "Parable of the Sower" gets a powerful graphic novel adaptation that's right for the times.

The Parable of the Sower from the Gospel of Luke in the Bible shows that while not everyone may accept faith messages, sometimes the "seed" will land on good soil and produce fruit.

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 ...

This June, the SciFri Book Club is reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. Written in 1993, Parable of the Sower begins in a fictional 2024, when global climate change and economic crises ...

For Witter and other readers of Butler’s work, Parable of the Sower is an awakening. “Even though I want to look on the bright side, I refuse to be blindly complicit in systems that keep leading the ...

The Parable of the Sower follows Lauren Oya Olamina, a teenage girl in the mid-2020s who is the eldest daughter of a Baptist preacher inside a walled-in California community.

Yesterday, the many thousands of churches worldwide that follow the Common Lectionary heard the Parable of the Sower. The particular one I went to featured a lib-modernist sermon that I quickly ...

In light of this, “Parable of the Sower,” a reimagining of Butler’s masterpiece as a gospel-opera, written by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon and performed at the Emerson Cutler ...

Reagon’s “Parable of the Sower,” featuring music and a libretto co-authored by her mother Bernice Johnson Reagon, made its world premiere in Abu Dhabi in November 2017. It opens in Boston next week, ...

In "Parable of the Sower," the main character, Lauren, writes diary entries in the years 2024 and 2025, which mention a number of natural disasters including "a big, ...