What kind of a sheep are you? Are you the kind that acts like a dumb animal, following your cowardly government?
Or are you the kind of sheep Jesus talks about in the Gospel passage for today’s Omelet Station? We’ll need some extra context that the lectionary, sadly, skips. But we’ll break a few eggs and feast on the fuller meaning of the extended metaphor.
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Links mentioned in the episode are below …
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Salad Bar (fresh links of interest)
“Pope Leo XIV celebrates first Mass as details emerge of how votes coalesced in secret conclave” — https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-prevost-leo-cardinals-1c1752bacc935c02af5f839a05de9a39
From Substack, Rat Says, by Rat: “Black Smoke” — https://ratsays.substack.com/p/black-smoke
“Brussels sues five EU countries for failing to enforce Digital Services Act” — https://rmx.news/article/brussels-sues-five-eu-countries-for-failing-to-enforce-digital-services-act/
EU press release — https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1081
“White House Shares Beefed-Up Trump Meme for Star Wars Day – Doesn’t Realize He’s Styled as a Sith Lord” — https://www.thewrap.com/white-house-shares-ai-generated-photo-of-beefed-up-sith-trump-star-wars-day/
From Substack, Philosopher’s Holler, by W.D. James: “The Day We Went to War Against Our Children” — https://wdjames.substack.com/p/the-day-we-went-to-war-against-our
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Omelet Station (Bible study)
Fourth Sunday of Easter — https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/051125.cfm
John 10:1-30 — https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/10?1
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My own work I cited
“ ‘No Idol-ing’ Zone” — https://goodneighborbadcitizen.substack.com/p/no-idol-ing-zone
“Is ‘Spy Wednesday’ — Judas Plotting To Betray Jesus — the New ‘High Holy Day’?” — https://goodneighborbadcitizen.substack.com/p/is-spy-wednesday-judas-plotting-to
Most recent premium subscriber post, FM Radio: “GNBC Book, p. 34-35: Station 8 – Jesus Consoles the Weeping Women: Preparing VS. Planning” — https://goodneighborbadcitizen.substack.com/p/gnbc-book-p-34-35
Most recent Wednesday Wakeup: “My Weakness & How I Disguised It” — https://goodneighborbadcitizen.substack.com/p/my-weakness-and-how-i-disguised-it
Last week’s Sunday Buffet: “The Fix Is In!” — https://goodneighborbadcitizen.substack.com/p/the-fix-is-in
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