I posted some screen captures from tonight’s NBC Nightly News story about Pine Ridge Church in a set on Flickr. I also posted some commentary about each picture and some guesses about what the producer was trying to accomplish with the segment, which I generally thought was a fair treatment of the issues (see my previous post for my full review). I think my comments on this picture really capture the heart of the story:

“One of the underrated things about Pine Ridge is how welcoming we are to people with disabilities. This poor guy had a full cranial removal - as you can see, the docs drew a line around his forehead and above his ears and just lopped off everything above the line. Shame really. Now he just sits on the front row with a vacant expression, occasionally muttering random stuff that nobody understands. But the church has really welcomed him like one of our own. Pretty inspirational, really.”