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“Go and Do Likewise” is centered around the parable of the Good Samaritan from the Bible.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

Yet the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, who gave us the parable of the fox and the hedgehog, suggests that the hedgehog’s one big trick may defeat all the tricks the fox can try.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

The film is, he said, is "another parable of parental crisis dressed up as a brightly coloured family adventure" - and a "cautionary tale about online childhoods".

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

The most direct reading of this makes “The Sheep Detectives” a parable about denial and eventual acceptance following a great personal loss.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

God was testing him like Job, he declared, and the point of that particular parable was that Job had done no wrong to begin with.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

As Sam Sacks writes, “Ms. Strout has developed her true mastery in an archetypal mode, writing stories that resemble secular parables or everyman morality dramas.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Buffett’s lessons and parables remind me of the volatility in technology stocks this year.

From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025

I was so green in the world that I hadn’t accepted there could be parables without a moral, questions without an answer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

“A New Hope,” “ The Empire Strikes Back” and “Jedi” collectively became a kind of morality North Star for Gen X, augmented by Joseph Campbell’s authentication of the films as spiritual parables.

From Salon ● May 25, 2024

His punishment is the Word, and his deficiencies are failures of words—as when he grows impatient with translation and strikes out precariously on his own, telling parables in his wildly half-baked Kikongo.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver