Last week, the Sunday Gospel began reading Matthew 13, a chapter that contains multiple parables about the Kingdom of Heaven. We began with the Parable of the Sower and Seed, discussing the fate of ...

You can't fix the mortgage mess if you don't understand what caused it. That's not finger-pointing. That's common-sense. A Biblical parable offers insight into why bad mortgage loans now threaten ...

This passage is known as "The Wheat and Tares" or "Wheat and Weeds" parable. The parable of the wheat and weeds is unique to Matthew. Its point is simple: Wheat and weeds will grow together until the ...

I'm getting tired of the way some Mormons throw around the "wheat and the tares" analogy to dismiss anyone who disagrees with them. A culture of judgmentalism has consequences, and they're not good.

Elder Donald D. Deshler of the Seventy, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: We learn in this parable that God permits both wheat (the good crop) and tares (the weeds) to grow together ...

The Rev. Jan Mahle, a campus minister at D'Youville College, is interim co-pastor of Cleveland Heights Christian Church, Cheektowaga. A graduate of Methodist Theological School in Columbus, Ohio, she ...