Here's hoping that "The Doctor" is correct (Doctor Who, season 12, episode 2):
"These are the dark times. But they don’t sustain. Darkness never sustains, even though sometimes it feels it might."
A blog by Dr. David B. Gowler (Oxford College of Emory University) about the reception history of the parables of Jesus. It includes reflections on issues from three of my books on the parables: What are They Saying about the Parables? (Paulist), The Parables after Jesus (Baylor), Howard Thurman: Sermons on the Parables (Orbis).
More excerpts from chapter 7 of the revised and expanded edition of What are They Saying about the Parables? Similar but unheeded exh...