Calgary pastor blows the whistle

When prominent Calgary pastor Jim Wallace learned through government documents that at least 100 Alberta churches have been recipients of gambling funds over the past four years, he sat on the information for about two months. Then, feeling he had to speak prophetically, he wrote two articles in the Calgary Herald exposing what he describes as the hypocrisy of the church.

In February Wallace, pastor of South Calgary Community Church and former president of the Calgary Evangelical Ministerial Association, wrote an opinion piece protesting the negative, stereotypical image portrayed by the Herald’s cartoonist, Vance Rodewalt. The offending cartoon depicted a clergyman railing against gambling in one frame and insisting on his take in the next. "This is an affront to all Christian ministers," Wallace wrote.

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