Octavia Butler's prescient novels offer a roadmap for survival in our changing world. Discover how her Afrofuturist works inspire hope and action.

Spend a day rescuing a strawberry patch from a tide of Bermuda grass—disentangling the tentacular runners of one plant from another—and you’ll relate to Christ’s parable of the wheat and ...

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While toning down the avant-garde experimentation of his recent works, the Romanian auteur still brings a dark absurdist edge to this punchy portrait of a Cluj bailiff tormented by her conscience ...

When the “real world” feels unlivable, queer sci-fi gives us something crucial: escape, resistance, and a way to imagine what’s next.

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A most interesting look at the parable of the Sower by our pastor, Jim Burgen. It is a parable that speaks about the Word we hear and how it impacts us according to what we want to hear. Let those ...

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I will start by saying something nice about Parable Of The Sower, which is that it really is as prescient as advertised. So ...