Marvin Olasky has a fascinating piece on how George Soros — hardly a friend of Christianity — gave Jim Wallis and Sojourners $200,000 in 2004, and some smaller grants since then. What made it so interesting was Wallis’s response when asked about the grant during a very friendly interview:

It’s not hyperbole or overstatement to say that Glenn Beck lies for a living. I’m sad to see Marvin Olasky doing the same thing. No, we don’t receive money from Soros. Given the financial crisis of nonprofits, maybe Marvin should call Soros and ask him to send us money.

So, no, we don’t receive money from George Soros. Our books are totally open, always have been. Our money comes from Christians who support us and who read Sojourners.

Even more interesting was that the pages that had documented the $200K grant suddenly disappeared from the web. However, Olasky and others have done a lot of digging and found all of the relevant grants.

So, we have Jim Wallis, who clearly had to have been aware of receiving such a large grant, accusing Marvin Olasky of “lying for a living,” when, in fact, it was Wallis who was lying. No doubt, he was lying in the “name of the people.”