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In God We Trust A few weeks ago, I wrote about Senator Charles Grassley's plans to investigate the fund-raising and spending practices of several prominent televangelists.

Well it looks there's some foot-dragging going on. Four of the ministries in question did not turn over the information requested by Thursday's deadline.

Particularly egregious is the behavior of the ministry of Creflo Dollar, whose lawyer has told the Senate Finance Committee that it will have to subpoena to get the information it is seeking. That way, the lawyer says, the information can't be posted publicly.

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Web watcher comScore Inc. has reported that last month, the new site GodTube.com saw traffic climb 973% -- growth unprecedented in the web's history. GodTube welcomed 1.7 million unique visitors between its official August 8 launch and month's end, debuting in comScore's list of top 1,000 internet properties.

Owned and operated by Big Jump Media, Inc., GodTube is exactly what you might guess -- a Christian alternative to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)'s YouTube. Similar to its secular counterpart, GodTube visitors can upload, view and comment on sermons, music videos and performances, testimonials, skits and sketches, rants, raves and what have you. In six weeks, it has accumulated more than 20,000 user-submitted clips and streamed more than 800,000 hours of video.

It's fascinating that here we are nearly two decades into the internet, and only now does a dominant faith-oriented web destination start to take shape. Sure, denominations and sects have their own predominant web resources -- some even run dynamic, regularly updated web portals. But your web search for religion will mostly yield a lot of domain squatting (www.religion.com, www.god.org) and last century's web design (www.jesuschrist.com, www.yhwh.com).

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