Pass the Collection Plate

My how the mighty have fallen.

You might remember how the Christian Coalition, founded in 1989 by the Rev. Pat Robertson, was once the leading political and fundraising force of the Christian Right.

Now that same group is in debt to creditors to the tune of:

A. $100,000
B. $500,000
C. $1 million
D. $2 million



ANSWER
D: $2 million. The situation at the Christian Coalition has become so dire that its chapter in Iowa — one of its biggest and most effective — left the Christian Coalition and reincorporated itself as the Iowa Christian Alliance.

Says Stephen L. Scheffler, ICA’s president, “The credibility [of the Christian Coalition] is just not there like it once was… We believe, our board believes, any Christian organization has an obligation to pay its debts in a timely fashion.”

To which we can only say, Amen!