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 burden ...

"Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour" (Matthew 25:13). This verse is the conclusion of the Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids, a story told by Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew.

The Stanley Parable is the most hilarious ten minutes I've spent with a game all year. I've actually spent more time than that — close to three hours — but each individual playthrough lasts no longer ...

Welcome to “Facing the Speculative,” where I will be discussing some crucial speculative fiction novels and their implications for modern society. This is an extension of the project “Imagining ...

Like Dear Esther and Thirty Flights of Loving, The Stanley Parable is an experiment with interactive narrative, another attempt to find a new form of storytelling unique to video games. It’s funny, ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. During these weeks I'm doing studies of four of the kingdom parables of Christ. We began that study with a parable that is ...

Everyone loves a good story. The popularity of Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Game of Thrones illustrates the affection most of us have for engaging tales of ...

The story of jazz is part musical and part social, the two strands interacting to shape, on one hand, the sound we hear and, on the other, the demographic who make it and constitute its audience.

It starts with the modern hall of mirrors - a screen depicting a screen depicting a screen. I can count three of these before the detailing gets too small to make out, but even then I'm forgetting one ...