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 ...

The parable of Jesus found in Matthew 13:1–23, Mark 4:1–20 and Luke 8:4–15 is the parable of the sower.

Celebrity gossip should be relegated to the tabloids, but how Christians handle the conversions of celebrities is important ...

Recorded in the Gospels of Matthew 7:24–27 and Luke 6:47–49, Jesus teaches the parable known as the “Wise and Foolish Builders.” The wise builder’s house is built on a foundation of rock ...

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 ...

Her grave is marked by a quote from her celebrated novel Parable of the Sower: “All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you.” The phrase “Octavia tried to tell us” has ...

That’sthepremiseof Octavia E. Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower, whichwas published in 1993. The novel contains a powerful and poignant vision of the United States of the future, one that ...