[Twinkie]

Is Riverside one of those new mega-churches usually referred to as "worship centers" and mostly specializing in humanist solutions and a disdain for the cross of Christ and the gospel. Don't know; just asking. I'll click into their website and see for myself. . .

[VOA]

"Is Riverside one of those new mega-churches usually referred to as
"worship centers" and mostly specializing in humanist solutions and
a disdain for the cross of Christ and the gospel. "

Uuhh, yep.
Good, concise background in the article linked below.
Also, I did read the NYTimes article mentioned about the $10 million
supposedly missing from the church treasury (sorry I don't have a copy)

http://news.ucc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=666&Itemid=1


(excerpt)
...Still others have said the Forbes era has been marked by financial mismanagement and even took the church leadership to court, alleging $10 million in church funds had been lost, according to The New York Times.

[Clemenza]

Riverside actually started out as a CONSERVATIVE Baptist Church in the 1920s. It is a BEAUTIFUL building (second most beautiful church in NY after St. John the Divine), filled with "activists" who attend for political events, but rarely for Sunday service.

Rmlew, did these folks ever try to proselytize at Columbia?