The "Money for Nothing" video accompanying this post has only a tangential connection to the subject matter.
Alas, I'm a child of the '80s, and that three-decade-old hit by the British rock band Dire Straits seemed like a good tune for a Friday afternoon.
As I noted earlier this week, about 300 members of a Chicago church received money for something — $500 each to spend, invest or give away.
In the post, I pointed out that WGNtv.com seemed to bury the lede at the end, reporting with no explanation that the church involved has a $50,000 budget deficit.
On this week's episode of "Crossroads," the GetReligion podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discuss the Chicago story.