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The parable of the sower (Mark 4: 1–20)
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 ...
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Octavia Butler predicted fire disaster in Los Angeles in 1993 book 'Parable of the Sower'
The grave of Butler, who died in 2006 at 58, is marked by a footstone etched with a quote from "Parable of the Sower," among her most famous novels: "All that you touch, you change. All that you ...
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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower
It took me three tries to get what Octavia Butler was trying to do with Parable of the Sower and Parable of the ... Yet here were we, her spiritual children numbering in the thousands, come ...
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Octavia Butler Wanted to Prevent Disaster in Los Angeles. Instead, She Predicted It
When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the Sower — a sci-fi novel about ... Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison. There were children’s books filled with illustrations of Black ...