"And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundredfold. As he said this, he called out, ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear’" (Luke 8:8). This Bible verse is from the Gospel of Luke, one ...

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3 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere 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 ...

ArtsEmerson, Boston's leading presenter of contemporary world theater and film and the professional presenting and producing organization of Emerson College, is thrilled to welcome back Toshi Reagon ...

In Matthew 13, a chapter full of parables, Jesus tells the parable of the Sower of the seed. It is a story of a farmer, scattering seed which fell upon four different types of soil; but only one soil ...

You can get lost in a painting as sweepingly panoramic and vividly detailed as “Parable of the Sower.” Sixteenth-century European viewers who saw it when it was new would have recognized its subject ...

In 1993, Octavia Butler imagined the year 2024: There would be intense, apocalyptic climate change leading to the exploitation of workers, a massive refugee crisis, and major violent class disparities ...

This is Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh’s depiction of a sower like the one in Jesus’ Parable of the Sower. van Gogh lived from 1853-90. (Courtesy Photo) Using agricultural language because his audience ...

Science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler said the novels in her “Parable” series were meant to be cautionary. Her 1993 “Parable of the Sower” follows Lauren Oya Olamina, a teenager born with ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our ...