Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst

FIRST, I WILL tell you what “The Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids” is not:

It is not a dark comedy starring Kristen Wiig, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Bell, and six other Kristens about a bachelorette party’s riverboat cruise crashing on the shores of a money-crunched Christian summer camp.

“The Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids” is also not a Sufjan Stevens song about the 10 different types of clouds that hang over Lake Michigan in late autumn, just as wedding season draws to a close.

And, like most campfire tales Jesus told, it is not singular in its meaning.