It is a growth parable. Parable Meaning Significance for today A man went out to sow grain. The man represents God and the seed is His message. Just as a planted seed starts to grow, the word of ...

Three is the sweet spot. It took me three tries to get what Octavia Butler was trying to do with Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. I think. I’m still not sure. But I’ve now read ...

In this episode, John and Andy talk to the screenwriter and academic Una McCormack and poet Salena Godden about Octavia Butler’s strikingly prescient novel, The Parable of the Sower. Backlisted is the ...