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Tradition uses the good shepherd as a comforting image of Jesus, but its power is in contrast—between Jesus and those who hate him.
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It is much easier to focus on the bad than the good—which means we have an imbalanced perspective of how things really are.
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Jesus’s teaching on the Good Shepherd comes in the midst of Easter resurrection stories — and the people who are afraid of him.
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We all recognize the problem with literal interpretations. But there is another kind of literalism that fails in exactly the same way.
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Episode 73 of the Make Saints podcast
Make a New Normal
