50 people killed in Easter Sunday bombings in Nigeria
[Above is a photo of our bishops protesting last week on behalf of Connecticut's convicted murderers.]
Update: It was suggested that my comment about the photo seemed snarky. That wasn't my intention. I just wanted a different headline that those of area media. So, how about "Our bishops representing a political perspective this past week"? No, that's either too vague or even snarkier, as it seems to suggest that they're merely representing only one of the state's political parties. How about, "Our bishops protesting state-sponsored murder"? Wait, that sounds like they're anti-abortion, which they definitely aren't. I know, "All three of our full-time bishops unite to protest capital punishment." Dull. How about New York Post-style: "Prosaic and Peaceful Protest by Protestant Progressives"? Yes, that's the winner.
I used to work for an editor who would never run stories about Protestant clergy involved in a protest. "Why?" he would ask, "Every headline would be 'Liberal bishop does something liberal. That's not news."
Oh, and the reason I juxtaposed the photo with the link is to visually remark on how easy we have it as Christians in the USA. Here, we protest on behalf of murderers. In Nigeria, we get murdered.