More often, whenever we hear a sermon about the parable of the sower, we get the idea of how we may fail to receive the good but not how sometimes being the hard ground by the way side that prevents ...

40,000 welcome Pope Prevost in St Peter’s Square for his first public audience. Tour in the popemobile amid cheers and flags from Lebanon, Ukraine, and peace movements. Leo XIV continues the ...

"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 ...

Why did Jesus speak to people in parables? Scholars are agreed beyond doubt that Jesus taught in parables. The parable is a type of speech act in which the speaker attempts to draw comparisons between ...

It’s fair to say Jesus’s parables aren’t used in popular conversation these days. Before passing a new law, imagine a politician starting with: “We must strive to build our national house on the rock ...

Octavia Butler has often been called the "grand dame of science fiction," and for good reason. Her extensive catalog of books, including the much-beloved Kindred, has changed the shape of speculative ...