If you’re going to care about the fall of the sparrow, you can’t pick and choose who is going to be the sparrow.

–Madeleine L’Engle

“So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to Him than a whole flock of sparrows.”

–Matthew 10:31 (NLT)

Charlie Brown, the comic strip character identified with the underdog, probably because he always felt like one. In one scene he was building a birdhouse when the cynical Lucy came by. “I’m building it for sparrows,” Charlie told her.

“For sparrows? Lucy said, “Nobody builds birdhouses for sparrows.”

“I do,” replied Charlie Brown. “I always stick up for the unde...