Tag: parable

And he told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow” [Matthew 13:3]. Although it has been almost 33 years since the day the transforming conversation took place, I remember it as if it were yesterday. The time was Autumn 1987. I was a 36-year-old second-year seminarian at Duke. The setting was a homiletics class, consisting of 10 or 12 divinity school students like me — all of whom, unlike me, were in their early 20s — together with our skilled and thoughtful professor, the Rev. Dr. Richard Lischer, who was/is just a few years older than me. The small size of the class and…