The word parable comes from the Greek pará (alongside) and báll? (throw). When you pitch a comparison or analogy, you don’t ...

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Author Bek Condello says she has not spoken to her friends or family inside the church since she decided to leave.

He proposed another parable to them. “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field.

Last time, we shared that the Word of God, the Bible, concerns the promise or covenant with God (Old Testament), the fulfillment of the Old Testament (First Coming), the covenant with Jesus (New ...

Yet the Gospel reminds us that such perfection belongs not to the present age but to the final harvest. The Church on earth is not yet the finished garden either; neither are we. For now, the Divine ...

A simile likens one thing to another, but this also implies that the two differ. Otherwise, there would not be two. Jesus says that “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed ...

A more than 2,000-year-old manuscript banned from the Bible is believed to hold details about the rise of the Antichrist, a ...

What are the weeds in our gardens of life that threaten the wheat growing there? In this Sunday’s reading from Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus presents three parables, each telling a story that fills in the ...

A growing number of charismatic Christians see themselves as waging a spiritual battle against the forces of Satan. Sometimes those forces are right across the street.

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Tony Abbott has been back in the political cycle for barely a fortnight and already the air is redolent with garment-rending, ancient feuds, biblical comeuppance and a listening tour.