Tag Archives: Parables

Why Jesus Used Parables

By Robin Bates | Published: July 1, 2023

Why did Jesus use parables? Because fiction is more powerful than straight exposition.

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Gods Speaks through the Imagination

By Robin Bates | Published: October 8, 2022

Jesus’s parables are exercises in imagining the kingdom of heaven come to earth.

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Reaching Out for the Anchoring Pole

By Robin Bates | Published: December 11, 2011

In “Vineyard Stories” poet Anne Higgins combines three of Jesus’s parables to imagine a vineyard where all can come and feast.

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