That from a participant at an evangelistic strategy session at the offices of Charisma magazine, according to the magazine's editor, J. Lee Grady. Although Charisma's pages are filled with glowing articles by and about some of televangelism's most ardent telethon-ers, Grady has been a critic of the monetary excesses and lack of transparency in many of the ministries otherwise celebrated in his magazine. Grady has refused to condemn Sen. Charles Grassley's (R-Iowa) recent investigation into six ministries' use of tax-exempt donor funds to pay for their luxurious lifestyles, and although he's written that he will "not rush to judgment" about the ministries, he added that "I can’t understand how some preachers can take their offerings with a straight face. How can anyone, for example, think that it is a wise use of God’s money to pay $10,000 a night for a hotel room on the way home from a foreign ministry trip? Something needs to be said. Questions need to be asked. That’s why I refuse to demonize Grassley for launching this probe."
