Gospel for Trinity 27 (Last Sunday of the Church Year): Matthew 25.1-13 Discovering that using the social-networking website Facebook was facilitating adulterous relationships within his congregation, a pastor in New Jersey has gotten his fifteen minutes of fame by requiring all of the married leaders in his church to delete their Facebook accounts. That is a legalistic and very wrong solution to a very real problem that transcends adultery. In an essay entitled “The Acceleration of Addictiveness,” Paul Graham observes that when new drugs or technologies were developed at a slower rate, culture was able to counteract the worst addictions by developing customs that discouraged harmful behaviors. With the rapid pace of change today, addictions are accelerating, among them a widespread addiction to the…