In God’s Care
One of the earliest most indelible images of Jesus from my childhood is the Good Shepherd, the subject of this Sunday’s gospel.* If there is a psalm we know by heart, I can bet it is Psalm 23. “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures….” […]
A Goat in Sheep’s Clothing
As the election season drags endlessly onward and the US seems ever more divided into groups that too often don’t even recognize one another as human beings who are deserving of love and compassion, it’s easy to think that I know exactly who is a sheep and who is a goat. Obviously, the ones who […]
We Are All in This Together – May 7, 2020
“One lesson… is that sheep fare best together, not picked off one by one. Another is that there is promise of great pasturage, abundant life for all who follow Jesus’ way. A third is that there is something public, open, honest, and even simple about how we live as God’s people through Jesus. It’s the shepherd, […]
Jesus Has Other Sheep Besides Us – May 6, 2020
“The metaphor of the gate is not one of exclusion, not a license to think of ourselves as Jesus’ true sheep and others as outsiders. (If we use it that way, we become like the Pharisees who expelled the blind man from their community.) The purpose of the gate is not to keep out other […]
