You, Lord, are both lamb and shepherd

You, Lord, are both lamb and shepherd. Sylvia Dunstan* (1955-1993). Sylvia Dunstan titled this text Christus Paradox, and says ‘Drafted on a commuter bus after a particularly bad day at the jail (she was chaplain at a high security prison), this hymn owes much to my longstanding relationship with Søren Kierkegaard.’ It was chosen as a theme hymn for the work of the 1984 General Council of the United Church of Canada on ‘the Saving Significance of Jesus Christ’. First published in 1987 in Songs for a Gospel, and in 1991 in Dunstan’s In Search of Hope and Grace its popularity spread quickly because it was included in test versions of new hymnals for the Anglican, Presbyterian and United...