This is Dutch artist Willem de Poorter’s depiction of the rich man in the Parable of the Talents evincing his displeasure toward the servant who had failed to put his money to the proper use. De ...

Counting today, two Sundays are left in Ordinary Time. Two weeks from now, Advent begins. As is characteristic of the last weeks of Ordinary Time, the Church’s readings focus on eschatology: the Last ...

The so-called parable of the talents in the Gospel of Matthew has perhaps become too familiar. One might read this passage and arrive at the rushed conclusion to avoid laziness and multiply the gifts ...

In Matthew’s version of Jesus’ Parable of the Talents, a rich man entrusts various amounts of his wealth to three servants before he goes on a long trip. While he’s gone, two of the servants invest ...

This Sunday’s Gospel, about the master who entrusts his servants with one, two and five talents respectively, is usually commented on from the point of view of doing something with the talents God ...

In this particular parable, Jesus describes a man who knows that he is leaving for an undisclosed period of time. He is delegating the responsibility of managing his assets to three different ...

Parable of the Talents is a sci-fi graphic novel which is set against a background of a war-torn continent under the control of a Christian fundamentalist fascist state.