40,000 welcome Pope Prevost in St Peter’s Square for his first public audience. Tour in the popemobile amid cheers and flags from Lebanon, Ukraine, and peace movements. Leo XIV continues the cat ...

Parable of the Talents is adapted by writer Damian Duffy and artists John Jennings and David Brame, the same creative team behind the previous Kindred and Parable of the Sower adaptations.

The dystopian America Octavia Butler imagines in her novels Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, both written in the 1990s, is eerily familiar—a failing education system, the dissolving of ...

At the Founders’ Day event, ‘Sowing Community: Living with Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Parables.,” speakers included Nikki High and LeVar Burton.

March 30, 2025, the Fourth Sunday of Lent: Jesus’ parable in Luke’s Gospel masterfully illustrates three characters, the father and two sons, each of whom provides an insight on the human ...

ANDREW NEIL: The dismal parable of the old and creaky substation that shut down Heathrow for a day sums up Broken Britain. By ANDREW NEIL, DAILY MAIL. Published: 12:59 EDT, 21 March 2025 | Updated ...

The brisk sales of Octavia Butler’s ninth novel, “The Parable of the Sower” is especially notable since Butler, who died in 2006, was born in Pasadena. A middle school there bears her name.

In “Parable of the Sower,” Lauren is a fifteen-year-old Black girl who lives in Los Angeles, in a cul-de-sac that is blocked off by walls, which creates a safe haven in a world of desperation ...

Butler’s Parable of the Sower, written in 1993 and set in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, feels hauntingly prescient in light of these events. In one scene, ...

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, ...

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 ...

I can't say it's the most exciting set of games, but at the very least The Stanley Parable is a classic, albeit an old one — the game was first released way back in 2011 as a mod for Half-Life 2.