It is the Good News that we proclaim. That is not, however, a simple task. These are hard times for making any news sound good. From A to Z, Albania to Zimbabwe, bad news dominates. A sniper picks off a young mother on her way to the market during a civil war.
Terrorists gun down innocent children playing in the street of a distant city.
In a country whose name we did not even learn in World Geography class, a man on his way to work is arrested, tortured, and put to death. Evil does not even attempt subtlety. We read in the Kansas City Star recently the stories of high school girls who fled the uprisings in their West African country where there is such turmoil that warring factions may chop off your arm or your leg just because you are of the wrong tribe, or in the wrong place at the wrong time. We still hear of the ongoing horrors of the disputes in Central Africa between the Hutus and the Tutsis. Last week, with the arrest of Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic we were reminded of genocide in the Balkans.