11.   Collection plates that went unfilled after the scandal have been overflowing of late.

12.   Clinton drops a bill in the collection plate.

13.   Congregations are retaining more of the money in their collection plates, forcing denominational officials into budget cuts.

14.   Do you suppose he amasses all that money by passing around a collection plate at town-hall meetings in Tennessee?

15.   Donations dipped for years as people feared the Sunday collection plate would go to defray legal expenses.

16.   Dropping my penny into the collection plate.

17.   Even so, he said, Mass attendance has not diminished during the last two weeks, and the collection plates remain full.

18.   For the church, the income is a businesslike way of passing the collection plate to the world.

19.   He takes the collection plate from my hands regularly.

20.   I remember going to one church and there were two collection plates, one for Jesse and one for Jesus.