fair and balanced at last...

The Layman

a publication of the

Presbyterian Lay Committee

gave me a belly laugh today.

Finally their publication

was fair!

The picture above is an example of

a person who the Lay Committee

finds wholesome, faithful,

acceptable,

white and delightsome.

When a person is pictured

in the pages

of their publication

smiling,

with hair intact and

good lighting...the

accompanying news

is typically favorable.

However,

when someone

the Lay Committee finds

unacceptable....

someone they find

inappropriate...

the picture is typically

blurred with bad lighting...

and we can be assured of

double chins and bad hair.

That is why I was so surprised

to find the photo below

of a long time proponent

of the Lay Committee

who died this past Oct. 14.

In no way do I find Mr. Jenkins
life or death laughable.
Though I most likely
would not have agreed
with his critique of the
church when he was alive,
I would never disrespect
him here or anywhere else.

My laughter is at the
Lay Committee in their
inability to take the time
to find an appropriate
photo of Mr. Jenkins....

In an article written to
remember and honor
George P. Jenkins
in the Feb. 2010 addition
the only picture the
Lay Committee could
find to print was this:

Really? This is the best
you could do?
Is this
the face of a
Presbyterian excited,
committed, energized
to renew the church?

If this is an example
of "raising the standard"
or
Lay Committee President
Carmen Fowler's
idea of "engaging the challenges
of our time with all the
resources God has placed within
our reach".

Then job
well done.

Fair
and
balanced at last.