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Cafe blogger Ann Fontaine’s essay about Christian seders is featured in Cathy Grossman’s article on the same topic in USA Today.

Today we give you the posts in The Lead that drew the most comment by month in 2010.

The end of the year is the time to list top 10 news stories, so your Lead team has come to a consensus on what we see as our top 10. We also have the stats for what our readers read and which stories gathered the most comments. What do you think?

Merry Christmas from your news team at The Lead

Frank Turner, University Librarian at Yale and author of a recently published biography of John Henry Newman, died suddenly last week. Turner, contributed the essay “The imagined community of the Anglican Communion” to the Cafe last September. His widow, the Rev. Ellen Tillotson, is rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Torrington, Connecticut.

Details are emerging that a story we published yesterday via the Changing Attitude blog in England may have been a scam. The story concerned the alleged murder of a youth worker for Integrity Uganda. We published it, in part, due to a quote in the story from Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, whom we know well enough to know that he wouldn’t make up a murder.

According to our Webalizer 2.0 statistics, Episcopal Cafe has received more than 2 million visits in the last 12 months. That’s a first for us. Visits are up by more than 17 percent over the previous year. Thanks to everybody who visits, and everybody who comes back.

Don’t forget, Episcopal Cafe is asking for your help in writing a Facebook ad, and we are also trying to help the folks at Jericho Road bring a fruit orchard to Central City, New Orleans. The first task requires some creativity, but the second just involves clicking on your mouse. And, hey, you’re doing that anyway.

The Cafe is about to dab its toe into the waters of online advertising, and we’d like your help in writing the ad. We need something punchy and catchy, no more than 20 words. Shorter is probably better. Make your submissions in the comments of the item, or, if you don’t want to audition publicly, send your submission to our feedback address.