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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s power in threes. The rule of three, we call it in the writing world: repeat a word or phrase or plot element three times in order to give it meaning. Two repetitions isn’t enough to establish ...

It's 2024. Extreme weather events due to global warming have overwhelmed parts of the United States. Water is increasingly scarce. The mass migration of people in search of more livable conditions has ...

One of the most lauded science fiction novels from writer Octavia E. Butler is heading to the big screen, according to Variety. Melina Matsoukas, who made waves with her work with Beyoncé and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discussing Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, influential sci-fi novel. Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel, Parable of the Sower, was selected as the most influential science fiction book of the last 125 ...

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 ...