Sojourners communications manager Tim King has now acknowledged that Sojourners received funding from George Soros.

(Editor’s note: In a recent story on the World Magazine website, Editor Marvin Olasky reviewed the details of his interchange with Jim Wallis, Editor of Sojourner’s magazine concerning funding sources. The following update follows the story.)

UPDATE: Sojourners communications manager Tim King has now acknowledged that Sojourners received funding from George Soros. King released a statement from Jim Wallis in which Jim says he “should have declined to comment” until he had checked the facts. Now that Jim has, he sees there were grants “from the Open Society Institute that made up the tiniest fraction of Sojourners’ funding during that decade—so small that I hadn’t remembered them.”

The first of the three grants, for $200,000, came at a time when Sojourners, according to its 2003 audited financial statement, had “incurred a significant amount of net losses” leading to “a negative asset balance” of $57,324 and had “adopted a strategy to generate additional sources of revenue and to reduce expenditures.” Those phrases are from “Note G” of the audited financial statement…”

After repeated emails and phone calls, Soros spokeswoman Laura Silber responded to a query from WORLD’s Warren Smith about the disappearance of online records showing the Open Society Institute’s grants to Sojourners. She said the grants did occur but the reason the documents were gone is “pretty simple. We are overhauling our website. That feature was not working well, so we decided to disable it. It won’t be a part of our new site, which is still an ongoing project.” — Marvin Olasky

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