Jesus Does Not Leave Us at the Altar

rethinking the parable of the ten virgins

I’m at the airport now, waiting for my flight home after teaching Friday and Saturday and preaching this morning. I’m still weighing today’s Gospel, the parable of the ten virgins (Mt 25:1-13), which as I said at the beginning of this morning’s sermon was anything but gospel to me when I was young. It was in fact a text of terror, more troubling and thr…