The Good Shepherd painting — which depicts Jesus in a field of lambs — came under fire last year after a high school senior asked for it to be taken down.

In John chapter 10, Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep” (vs. 11). Jesus uses the imagery of a shepherd to portray Himself as being the kind ...

The East Muskingum school district has agreed to remove a painting of Jesus from the office of John Glenn High School in New Concord, despite comments from about 30 people that it should stay.

Not only is Jesus the Good Shepherd, but he is the sheep. He is “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,” as John the Baptist confessed (John 1:29).

“The earliest images of Jesus depicted him as the ‘Good Shepherd,'” said Dr. Elizabeth Lisot, an art history professor at the University of Texas at Tyler, in an email exchange.

Jesus is the Good Shepherd who comes to seek us right where we are: in our problems, in our suffering. … He comes there.” Screenshot from Vatican News YouTube channel ...

In these days of Easter season, we hear lovely readings about Jesus the Good Shepherd. We can imagine bucolic settings of green grass and flowing waters, where this gentle Jesus leads his sheep to ...