In Kiefer’s new book, Growing God, Emma spends her school vacation at her “favorite place on Earth”—her grandmother’s farm. It is a place where her grandmother, as she tells Emma, “grows God.” Emma is ...

The story is about a farmer who plants seeds and ... This story shows that once the seed of the word of God is sown, only time will show how a person’s faith will grow and develop.

The man represents God and the seed is His message. Just as a planted seed starts to grow, the word of God starts ... but when the sun came up it burnt the young plants. The seed on the rocky ...