Parable

The “path,” besides corresponding to the details of the parable of the sower, also is a visual link, a bridge that connects the parable scene with Jesus teaching about it above.

Coming across this parable recently got me thinking about how it’s possible to have such differing, even disparate, impressions about the same subject.

For a long time I wanted a parable with a tidy moral about sweetly stubborn hope or stupidly unbreakable habit.

If Chiang's story is a parable about the importance of keeping humans “in the loop,” it also makes a subtle case for ensuring that the circle of knowledge is as large as possible.

It's a feminist parable, a corporate satire, an adventure movie, a story of self-empowerment, and even a musical.

Jesus, using the parable of the sower shows that 3/4 of the Word of God that people hear are not put to use.

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s enigmatic eco-parable, with its challenging title, is not easy to pin down.

So what does the oil in the parable refer to?

That’s not a movie title — it’s the title of a parable.

The parable should encourage such people to keep struggling.

The sermon was about Jesus’ parable of the two sons (Matthew 21:28-32).

Holding hard to the idea of truth as parable, the sermon, delivered engagingly well by the very compelling Liev Schreiber (Broadway/Donmar’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses), unwinds its restless mind force in the intuitive unraveling.

If Powers has remade the way novelists use the environment, Rumaan Alam revived the gilded moral parable.

In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the parable of the mustard seed to explain faith and the kingdom of God.

It bears rereading still: it’s the very best parable of the creative life I know.

It’s interesting to note that the bride is not mentioned in this parable.

Much like the parable of the scorpion and the frog, Islamists will do what Islamists do, expend significant blood, treasure and effort into the one goal that appears to unite the Muslim world: Murdering Jews.

She lost two grandparents herself in the pogrom, and she saw the play as a parable about how polarization and dehumanization of any group can lead to violence.

There are records of similar versions of this parable in Greek literature.

This time I’m not talking in Parable, I said Cameroon is winning Nigeria period!