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 ...

An album-length EP by the 20-year-old producer is a dizzying and boundless collage of collages, using free-jazz logic and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset” and called it a ...

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 Great Again” ...

With the Doomsday Clock ticking ever closer to midnight and threats of nuclear war and illness outbreaks, things are a little scary right now, globally. In 1993, science-fiction writer Octavia E.

Warner Bros. Pictures has set a feature adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s critically acclaimed sci-fi novel “Parable of the Sower” helmed by Melina Matsoukas. “Parable of the Sower” takes place on a ...

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 ...

That day Jesus walked out of the house. He sat down beside the sea. So many people crowded in that he got into a boat and taught from the water while the whole crowd stood on the shore. A sower went ...