In the first of two programmes on the parables of Jesus, Sean Fletcher meets Christians inspired by one of his most famous ...

Jesus was a master of teaching truths through parables. Jesus’ parables are short stories that teach a moral or spiritual lesson using ordinary everyday experiences, analogy or similar comparisons.

Author's note: Context plays an important role in how the term "queer" is employed here. This word has a history of being used as a slur and could offend some people. However, as language evolves, ...

Why did Jesus speak to people in parables? Scholars are agreed beyond doubt that Jesus taught in parables. The parable is a type of speech act in which the speaker attempts to draw comparisons between ...

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 ...

A famous preacher was teaching a seminary class on the parables of Jesus and noticed that all of his students seemed to prefer the ones with the happy endings. The tiny seed growing into a humongous ...

As Urban demonstrates, Milton went far beyond the standard practices of Reformed Puritan scriptural interpretation, incorporating the larger ideals he found in the parables while relating those also ...

Postmodernism, with its critique of modern assumptions about knowledge, language, authority and narrative, presents new challenges for preachers. Postmodernity is generally seen as entailing a ...