“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away—and the wolf snatches them and scatters them…I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me.” John 10:11–14 Jesus gently cradles one lamb in his hand while a second rests on his shoulder in an ivory statuette crafted in about 1600 in Goa, the port city on India’s southwest coast. Beneath Jesus’ crossed feet stand […]
