Is this a great parable, or what?

All of Jesus’ parables are like depth-charges, but this one seems to give off a dazzling display of fireworks when it explodes.

The power of Jesus’ parables is that even though they were all set in the first century world, they have perfect twenty-first century pitch, both in terms of resonance and relevance. Granted, today’s parable talks about strange wedding traditions, midnight processions, a late bridegroom, and nearly a dozen dozing bridesmaids, but the whole situation Jesus described is perfectly understandable to any twenty-first century person. After all, the parable is really all about an energy crisis. An oil shortage causes all the problems.

With the election finally over and Wall Street bailed out with 1 trillion dollars of our money (or I s…