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 ...

"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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 17—Using agricultural language because his audience was familiar with it, Jesus told the Parable of the Sower to describe the ...

This Sunday we will consider Matthew 13:1-23 and the famous parable of the sower. Hopefully you will get to hear the full version read at Mass and not the shorter option of Matthew 13:1-9! It is 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 ...

Last week, the Sunday Gospel began reading Matthew 13, a chapter that contains multiple parables about the Kingdom of Heaven. We began with the Parable of the Sower and Seed, discussing the fate of ...

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” ...

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 ...