Ecclesiastical Commerce Others are troubled “that churches are profiting from the communities that they’re supposed to be serving.” The Rev. Joe Samuel Ratcliff counters that his McDonald’s restaurant will not only create jobs but fund scholarships and outreach programs. He thinks he’ll turn a $150,000 profit per year, and says: “It would be an unholy venture if we didn’t make a profit.”
And all this is done in the name of a mild-mannered Jew who threw over the tables, scattered the coins, and drove the merchants from the temple with a whip of ropes when he saw what they had done to his Father’s house.
