Print Chad Loucks, the church’s director of Youth Ministry and a Fuller School of Theology student, speaks on the parable of the tares and wheat (Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43).

SCRIPTURES & ART: God lets the wheat and tares co-exist, but not indefinitely. There is a moment of judging and separating. There is a heaven. And there is a hell.

Tares are weeds that resemble wheat. In the parable, a wheat field had deliberately been polluted by an enemy who sowed the seeds of the weeds intermixed with the wheat.

Jesus cares. He says, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me ...

I wonder how many Mormons who fall back on wheat-and-tares thinking remember much about the tares in Jesus’ parable in Matthew 13. Three things stand out to me.

Today’s Gospel featuring the Parable of the Wheat and Tares cautions against overzealousness in the attempt to root out sin and sinners from the Church. This does not mean that we are never to ...

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 ...