The Good Shepherd is imagined by each of us in a different way.

Growing up in the pasturelands of the English West Country, a shepherd was a Farmer who kept Sheep. They grazed in fields, lambed in springtime, and were shorn each year; their constant propensity to escape made them more trying to the patience than cattle, but the qualities of the sheep farmer were probably not greatly different from those of the dairy farmer.

Attending school on Dartmoor, rugged upland in Devon, sheep farming was altogether different. The sheep …