The Voice Above the Noise: Following the Good Shepherd

Apr 26, 2026  •  The Rt. Rev. Chip Stokes

Who has your ear? On Good Shepherd Sunday, with confirmations at the evening service, the visiting bishop recalls a lone sheep on Lindisfarne running at a stone wall until the shepherd whistled it home. Against a noisy, angry and polarized world, John 10 presents Jesus as gate and shepherd whose voice leads to abundant life, a life of willed, sacrificial love expressed in the baptismal promises the congregation renews together.