The main character in Parable of the Sower, Lauren Olamina, is the daughter of a Baptist minister who serves their walled-in neighborhood.
When her community is attacked, burned, and looted, seventeen-year-old Olamina barely escapes with her life.
She travels, at great danger, into northern California in search of a haven where she and others can build the first Earthseed community.
The word "Earthseed" comes from the idea that the seeds of all life on Earth can be transplanted, and through adaptation will grow, in many different types of situations or places.
Believers are to accept the central tenet that "God is Change" primarily so that they will recognize their own power to affect and direct Change/God.
[1] The Terasem Movement seeks the development of humanity through technology, and to bridge the gap between science and religion.
Like the fictional Earthseed, Terasem Movement attempts to "shape God", but through technology.