This particular soil (Mark 4:26-34)
Seeds do not grow without soil, and soil is a factor of place.
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Scratch the soil in central Kansas and bindweed springs up. It’s been there all along, just biding its time, waiting for the hegemony of grass to be broken. Someone tried to tell me once that Mennonites brought this annoying, tangling, invincible weed as pig feed when they settled the prairie, but I have trouble imagining that even pigs would dig it.
