There is something very disconcerting about being accosted by someone who challenges you with the question "Have you been saved?"

The Fourth Sunday of Easter has traditionally been known as Good Shepherd Sunday. The particular focus today is on leadership Whose leadership do we follow?

We should not be too quick to criticize the early disciples for their initial lack of faith in the resurrection.

Today’s Gospel and Luke’s whole theology of the Spirit, which will unfold in Acts, is a chronicle of the way God can walk with us in surprising, often unknown ways, reversing our path from fear and disappointment to make of us bearers of the power of the risen one.

The shepherd imagery is deeply rooted in biblical thought.