A languid, loving portrait of Black farmers in the South, “Seeds” is a mixture of celebration ... With the patience of a sower, Shyne lets the lives of her subjects unfold gently over two ...

If the sower represents God, then the parable teaches that God ... Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the Kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would ...

I knew deep winter had arrived when the first seed catalog showed up in the mail. These winter missives were really harbingers of spring, with their glossy photos of plump tomatoes just begging to be ...

Every seed that you plant will have some kind of outcome. Sometimes it may take one thousand years for that seed to blossom into a lively plant. Botanists found a one-thousand-year-old seed in a cave ...

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 ...

Emily Knight is the National Trust’s general manager for South Warwickshire and Northamptonshire, she said: “Instead of just scattering seeds and hoping they’ll grow, we’re bringing in ...

A reader shared the following Facebook post (archived) with the question: "Is this meme accurate about Octavia Butler's book 'Parable of the Sower' and predicting the recent LA fires with a new ...