As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...

Art has been behind — and indeed at the core of — every great revolution and social movement. There a mountain of important ...

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

Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...

Although Butler passed away in 2006, her Parable of the Sower, " a speculative novel predicted the hell that's 2025.

Now, he tells the parable of the Sower to those “inside” his family—his disciples—to illustrate that by hearing the word of God and accepting it, they provide a rich soil for it to produce a plentiful ...

33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures [2] of meal, till the whole was leavened.