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

Moreover, all of the great themes of Jesus' preaching are struck in the parables. Perhaps no part of the Gospels, then, can better put us into touch with the mind of Jesus Christ than the parables.

Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price ... in the absence of God. In the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus ...