Jesus was a master of teaching truths through parables. Jesus’ parables are short stories that teach a moral or spiritual lesson using ordinary everyday experiences, analogy or similar comparisons.

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 ...

Jesus often spoke in parables, or short stories with many layers of meanings. Perhaps one of the most famous parables is the story of the sower who goes out and indiscriminately sows seed. Some seeds ...

The Gospel’s reading of the parables of the Kingdom of Heaven in Matthew 13, begun two weeks ago, ends today. We’ve heard the parables of the sower and seed, of the wheat and weeds, and of the little ...

Scripture for Life: Jesus' kind of faith, expressed through practices such as love of enemy and the hope that acts as if evil will never win, is grain-of-mustard faith; it becomes a self-fulfilling ...

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 ...

As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and commentators (archived) pointed out similarities between current events and the plot of Octavia Butler's 1993 ...