Msgr. Joseph Prior unpacks the classic story of the Good Samaritan that Jesus tells in this Sunday’s Gospel. We hear the Lord speaking to our hearts and inviting us to open our minds to our neighbors, ...

History reveals numerous examples of 'speak' and we can draw many examples to illustrate this. These are three of them: Double speak When Hitler said he was sending Jews, gypsies and anyone else or ...

In Pope Leo XIV’s’ metaphorical use of “yeast,” he evoked my favorite parable, Jesus’ parable about leaven: “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom? It is like yeast, which a woman ...

Octavia Butler's seminal sci-fi novel Parable of the Talents is getting a graphic novel adaptation, and we've got an exclusive preview.

Many of Jesus' parables refer to simple everyday things, such as a woman baking bread (parable of the Leaven), a man knocking on his neighbor's door at night (parable of the Friend at Night), or the ...

Yeshua’s one-sentence parable about yeast reads, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour (that is, in Greek, three satas; or perhaps 22 liters ...

Yeshua’s one-sentence parable about yeast reads, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour (that is, in Greek, three satas; or perhaps 22 liters ...

Leaven CEO Mark Lillis thanked the kids for participating in the event and told them they were there to “show appreciation and to say thank you to these first responders,” as well.

“Leaven” is a term used 39 times in the Bible, and Scripture usually refers to leaven as a type of sin. When God gave Moses instructions for celebrating the Passover, they were told to remove ...

The comments on the parable of the leaven in Matthew 13:20 is summed up with “the kingdom of heaven infuses and influences the whole of the earth” (197). There is nothing about the symbolic use of ...

Or, at least, she did in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The 1993 dystopian classic recounts the life and times of a Black girl who shares the pain of others. Lauren lives with this ...

The kingdom as presented in the parable of the leaven relates more readily to our post-Einsteinian (and post-Darwinian) world view of a time-structured and growing, evolving cosmos that God ...