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Parable of the Sower: The God Who Scatters Seed Everywhere

Jesus’ Parable of the Sower is one of the most well-known metaphors in the Bible. All three synoptic gospels tell this parable of Jesus nearly verbatim. The story can be interpreted in a variety of ...
National Catholic Register

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Parable of the Sower and the Seed

Starting today and the following two Sundays, the Gospel will focus on Jesus’ parables of the Kingdom of Heaven, found in Matthew 13. This week, we’ll hear the Parable of the Sower and Seeds. Next ...
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The parable of the sower explained by Pope Leo XIV

(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 05.21.2025).- Some 40,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the first general audience of Pope Leo XIV who decided to continue the series of catecheses initiated by ...
NPR

Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — now it's also an opera

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 ...
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How They See It: Sower, Seeds and Soils

Christians all over the world know and enjoy the Parable of the Sower, also known as the Parable of the Soils. Many ask with a sigh, "Am I rocky?" Some blame the sun damage and the rocks on the ...
NPR

The Power And Prescience Of Octavia Butler's 'Parable Of The Sower'

It's 2024. Extreme weather events due to global warming have overwhelmed parts of the United States. Water is increasingly scarce. The mass migration of people in search of more livable conditions has ...
National Catholic Register

What Pope Leo XIV Sees in Van Gogh’s ‘Sower’ — and What You Might Have Missed

Pope Leo XIV’s first General Audience on Wednesday was a meditation on Matthew’s Parable of the Sower (13:1-23). It’s the first of five parables or analogies that Jesus makes about the nature of the ...