Jesus is the Word of God, found in all of us; how we engage him and the way of love will determine whether or not we are good ...

Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 years ago, in 1993. This Afrofuturistic book about a dystopian America set in our time now seems positively prophetic — and a new ...

Bring Jesus’ powerful parable to life with “The Sower and the Seed”, an engaging classroom play based on the Bible story that explores how people respond to God’s message. Perfect for whole-class or ...

Young people who have read Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel say it’s not only prescient, but also carries lessons for today. Imminent drought, rising sea waters, destructive borders, a vanishing middle ...

This semester I’m teaching my Religion and Science Fiction class with a focus on climate change and dystopian fiction. We’ll start off with Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Rereading it with a ...

It's almost eerie how well author Octavia Butler saw the future back when she penned Parable of the Sower in 1993. The world she pictured in her futuristic take of 2024 isn't that far off from our ...

Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sower at Sunset’ painting. Vincent van Gogh/ Kröller-Müller Museum via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van ...

Throughout the past year, Reagon has been leading a community-based project—Parable Path Maine—based on the themes of her opera: the effects of environmental ruin and inequality, and the ideas of ...

The 1993 novel is hailed as one of the best science fiction books of all time, along with George Orwell's '1984' and Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale.' One of the most lauded science fiction ...

This is the last week of my “catch-up” on Scriptures and Art. As I’ve pointed out, there are two possible readings this year for the Third, Fourth and Fifth Sundays of Lent. That is because while the ...