A few months ago, I was in Washington, D.C., for a writers convention. Assembled at the nation’s capital were journalists, essayists, poets and scribes along with representatives from academic writing ...

The importance of the parables can hardly be overestimated. They comprise a substantial part of the recorded preaching of Jesus. The parables are generally regarded by scholars as among the sayings ...

Jesus' parables are among the most memorable and distinctive elements in the Gospels. Jesus uses these striking short stories to explain the extraordinary, unexpected and apocalyptic nature of God's ...