christian charity Watch: Missouri pastor enraged at his congregation for not buying him a luxury watch Mark Frauenfelder

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evangelicals Someone blew the whistle on Hookers for Jesus Thom Dunn

religion Congregants allegedly pressured to to sell their own blood and donate the funds to their church Séamus Bellamy

health How Memphis's Methodist University Hospital, a "nonprofit," sued the shit out of its Black, poor patients while raking in millions and paying execs more than a million each Cory Doctorow

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class war Charity with US Characteristics: how our oligarchs buy their way out of criticism Cory Doctorow

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