Melissa Engle/MCC
Paul Heidebrecht of MCC’s Ottawa Office reflects on the parable of the talents:
As a resident of a wealthy country in the global North, I am most inclined to relate to the slave who was entrusted with five—rather than one or two—talents in this week’s text from Matthew. After all, I am part of a nation that possesses a disproportionate share of the planet’s resources. And I also like to think of myself as possessing virtues such as creativity, industriousness, and responsibility that would enable me to multiply whatever is entrusted to me...
