Fourth Sunday of Easter — April 26, 2026
On Good Shepherd Sunday, familiar texts invite a deeper reading — revealing Christ’s abundant life not as exclusion, but as a call to holistic, imaginative faith, writes Aaron Pratt Shepherd.
The Rev. Dr. Aaron Pratt Shepherd, a PC(USA) pastor currently serving as settled pastor of Union Congregational Church (UCC) of East Walpole, Massachusetts, and assistant teaching professor of philosophy and religion at UMass Lowell.
On Good Shepherd Sunday, familiar texts invite a deeper reading — revealing Christ’s abundant life not as exclusion, but as a call to holistic, imaginative faith, writes Aaron Pratt Shepherd.
You are welcome to use this liturgy in your online worship services and distribute it to your congregation.
Aaron Pratt Shephard writes that even when a child’s life seems to end before it begins, faith in Christ’s resurrection offers hope that every life will yet be born into eternal fullness.
Aaron Pratt Shepherd praises Andrew Root’s "Evangelism in an Age of Despair" as a timely, theologically rich call for the church to reclaim evangelism.
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