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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 03/14/2012 : 07:32:49
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The huge Crystal Cathedral "Hour of Power" televangelism ministry, with its 3,000-seat sanctuary in Garden Grove (near Los Angeles) is bankrupt. Its governing board have driven out all the Schuller clan, which has treated the congregation as its hereditary fief for fifty years.
(Hat Tip to Christian Nightmares.)
From the Los Angeles Times: An era closes for Schullers and their congregants
Crystal Cathedral worshipers face the choice of following the founder's daughter out the door or staying at the church. The family's departure underscores a shift from a certain brand of televangelism.
By Nicole Santa Cruz and Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times
March 14, 2012
Every Sunday morning, Jillian Carter climbed into her car for the 45-minute drive from Torrance to the grandiose, glass-paneled church in Garden Grove.
The Crystal Cathedral featured stirring organ music, pageantry and the sermons of founder Robert H. Schuller, whose sunny Christianity and motivation-seminar zeal combined to make him a 20th century colossus of American televangelism.
To Carter, the 3,000-seat sanctuary felt like home. Even as pews emptied, donations nose-dived and the aging founder passed the reins to his children in recent years, the church's first family remained an abiding presence.
But for the first time this Sunday, the services will have no Schuller presence or influence, leaving some to wonder whether the church's place in American Christianity will survive its tumultuous divorce from the family name.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 03/14/2012 07:37:39
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TG
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 03/14/2012 : 07:48:29 [Permalink]
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| And to make matters worse, the facility has been sold to the Whore of Babylon, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange (County, California), who will eventually evict the current tenants and use it as a Catholic Church. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2012 : 08:06:53 [Permalink]
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| What? It's not going to be a Secular Cathedral? Bummer! But at least the sale will give fundies conniptions. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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The fall of the house of Schuller
