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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Lord Jesus Christ told the parable of the sower from a boat. The parable appears in the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel according to Matthew and in parallel places in the Gospels according to ...

When Octavia E. Butler wrote ‘The Parable of the Sower,’ she vowed to include only things that could actually happen—which perhaps explains why the novel feels so prescient. “I was trying not to ...

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 ...