Tag: Parable of the Talents

  • Not Using the Talent is a Grievous Sin

    My text for Sunday is Matthew 25:14-30, variously called the parable of the talents or the parable of the coins or the parable of the gold… something like that. Reading Barth again, I happened on a passage in I.2 where he refers to this parable. He uses this parable as an illustration of the Church that hears but does not…