Lauren’s Religious Code To Save Humanity
Introduction Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower places religious invention inside a California collapsing under climate disruption, economic inequality, privatization, addiction, and violence. Lauren Oya Olamina, the teenage daughter of a Baptist minister, does not become an atheist when she rejects her father’s God. She creates Earthseed, a belief system centered on the proposition “God is Change” and the conviction that human beings can shape the direction of change

