The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...

One day, while going through it, I came across his interpretation of the Parable of the Sower and the Seed, from which he teaches a lesson. His use of the parable significantly differs from the ...

Discover how Octavia Butler's prescient novel 'Parable of the Sower' serves as a roadmap for survival in our chaotic times.

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 speculative fiction classic, American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who ...

And when he was alone, those around him with the Twelve asked him about the parables. And he said to them, 'To you has been ...

When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the Sower — a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is “Make America ...

The seed sower was bought about 1945 from North Devon Farmers, which was an agricultural merchant in Bideford. It was bought for sowing grass seeds at Holwell Farm, Clovelly; part of the Clovelly ...

BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — Seed Sower, a non-profit group which had operated out of the Fruits of Labor building in downtown Beckley, was in the process of relocating on Monday, July 8, 2024 ...

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 ...

The Sower’s Gallery is hosting an opening reception for its new exhibit: “Nature’s Paintbrush, the Art of Linda Snouffer” from noon to 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 7. The exhibit, located ...