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  • Pondering the Collection Basket in an Age of Electronic Giving

    06/06/2016 6:56:20 AM PDT · by Salvation · 31 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 06-05-16 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    Pondering the Collection Basket in an Age of Electronic Giving Msgr. Charles Pope • June 5, 2016 • New financial realities and mechanisms raise questions for the traditional collection and offertory procedures at Mass. For as far back as most of us can remember, the “collection” has always taken place after the Creed and Intercessory prayers. A basket is passed and people drop in cash or a check, often inside an envelope. It is often brought up along with the bread and wine as an actual offering to the Lord and His Church.But the problem is that cash, and...
  • $30,000 lottery ticket in church collection plate

    03/30/2011 9:37:37 AM PDT · by caldera599 · 14 replies
    MSNBC ^ | 03/20/2011 | WBALTV.com
    BALTIMORE — Maryland Lottery officials said the pastor of a struggling parish recently came across a generous donation in the collection plate — a $30,000 scratch-off ticket. Lottery officials didn't release the name of the church but did say the ticket had been scratched off when it was placed in the collection plate earlier this month. The pastor found the ticket when tallying that Sunday's contributions.
  • New force for broad immigration reform: conservative evangelicals (No way "evangelical leaders")

    05/10/2010 9:42:58 AM PDT · by tobyhill · 21 replies · 431+ views
    CNN ^ | 5/10/2010 | Dan Gilgoff
    Tea Party activists and other conservatives are planning rallies next month in support of Arizona's tough new immigration law, which has come under attack from Democrats, Latino groups and some maverick Republicans. But a growing chorus of conservative evangelical leaders has broken with their traditional political allies on the right. They're calling the Arizona law misguided and are attempting to use its passage to push for federal immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. The group, which includes influential political activists such as Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy wing, and Mathew...
  • Secret Service Agents Seize Ray Comfort Gospel Tracts ("1 million dollar bill")

    06/03/2006 6:54:04 AM PDT · by TheBattman · 119 replies · 7,102+ views
    WorldViewWeekend.com ^ | 06/02/2006 | Brannon Howse
    Secret Service Agents Seize Ray Comfort Tracts Press Release On June 1st, 2006, Secret Service agents showed up at the office of Great News Network in Dallas, Texas and demanded their entire stock of $1 million dollar gospel tracts that are produced by Ray Comfort’s ministry, Living Waters. The tracts are used by Ray Comfort and his co-host Kirk Cameron and have been promoted on their national television program. Reports were that the Secret Service was going to pay a visit to Comfort’s national offices in Bellflower, California and confiscate their entire stock. Apparently someone in North Carolina took one...