The first part of the parable draws attention to the sower and to the seed, a reality in rural Palestine familiar to Jesus’ original audience composed mostly of peasant farmers. If the sower ...

Jesus has established the foundation of his new family: listening to God’s word and doing his will (Mk 3:34). Now, he tells the parable of the Sower to those “inside” his family—his disciples—to ...

social media users have called back to Parable of the Sower — which takes an excerpt from the Bible’s story of the same name, where Jesus tells of a farmer who plants seeds in different types ...

Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles, consumed by fires, and last week, the cemetery where the iconic author is buried caught fire amid the ongoing wildfires impacting communities across Southern ...

And when he was alone, those around him with the Twelve asked him about the parables. And he said to them, 'To you has been ...

Her book “Parable of the Sower,” published in 1993, paints a picture of a California ravished by the effects of climate change, income inequality, political divisiveness and centers on a young ...

Octavia Butler's 1993 speculative fiction novel “Parable of the Sower” was a foundational ... Maybe it's made out of titanium. The seeds of our culture don’t have a choice but to bleed ...

You are probably familiar with the story of Jesus about the sower who scatters his seed on various soils ... It is known as the parable of the weeds. In it, Jesus reveals another secret about ...

This is the Daily Gospel for today, January 29, 2025, which is the Wednesday of the third week in Ordinary Time. READ MORE: ...

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: “All that you touch, you change.

A languid, loving portrait of Black farmers in the South, “Seeds” is a mixture of celebration ... With the patience of a sower, Shyne lets the lives of her subjects unfold gently over two ...

In his parable of the sower, our Lord described four kinds of ground upon which the seed fell and said that only on the good ground did it bear enduring fruit. In another parable he spoke of the ...