Lessons from the parable of the strong man and the thief

Many Christians can answer the question, “How are we saved?” with a simple response: through the death and resurrection of ...
Los Angeles Times

Could Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Talents’ draw a new audience as a graphic novel?

Influential writer Octavia Butler’s literary legend may spread to a new type of fanbase with the introduction of a graphic novel adaptation of “Parable of the Talents,” originally published as a novel ...
NPR

Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — now it's also an opera

Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 years ago, in 1993. This Afrofuturistic book about a dystopian America set in our time now seems positively prophetic — and a new ...
National Catholic Register

Parable of the Unmerciful Servant and ‘the Measure by Which You Measure’

Last week, Jesus spoke of fraternal correction, to admonish the brother who does us wrong to move him to repentance. That is why we correct our brother: not to show our superiority (of which no true ...
Forbes

The Nine Financiers, a Parable About Power

Legend has it that in 1923, a meeting of America's most powerful men took place at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. Attending the meeting were the following nine financiers and power brokers: the ...