Oral Roberts Dead
Oral Roberts, the evangelist who rose from humble tent revivals to found a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university bearing his name, died Tuesday. He was 91.
Roberts died of complications from pneumonia in Newport Beach, Calif., according to his spokesman, A. Larry Ross. The evangelist was hospitalized after a fall on Saturday. He had survived two heart attacks in the 1990s and a broken hip in 2006.
Roberts was a pioneer on two fronts: He helped bring spirit-filled charismatic Christianity into the mainstream, and he took his trademark revivals to television, a new frontier for religion.
Roberts overcame tuberculosis at age 17, and he credited that triumph with leading him to become one of the country's most famous ministers.
By the 1960s and '70s, he was reaching millions around the world through radio, television, publications and personal appearances. He remained on TV into the new century, co-hosting the program, "Miracles Now," with son Richard. He published dozens of books and conducted hundreds of crusades. A famous photograph showed him working at a desk with a sign on it reading, "Make no little plans here."
His ministry hit upon rocky times in the 1980s. There was controversy over his City of Faith medical center, a $250 million investment that eventually folded, and Roberts' widely ridiculed proclamation that God would "call me home" if he failed to meet a fundraising goal of $8 million. (It was a plea that Chick mocked in one of his tracts.) A law school Roberts founded also was shuttered.
Semiretired in recent years and living in California, he returned to Tulsa in October 2007 as scandal roiled Oral Roberts University. His son, Richard Roberts, who succeeded him as university president, faced allegations of spending university money on shopping sprees and other luxuries at a time the institution was more than $50 million in debt. See Chick's REV. WONDERFUL.
Roberts died of complications from pneumonia in Newport Beach, Calif., according to his spokesman, A. Larry Ross. The evangelist was hospitalized after a fall on Saturday. He had survived two heart attacks in the 1990s and a broken hip in 2006.
Roberts was a pioneer on two fronts: He helped bring spirit-filled charismatic Christianity into the mainstream, and he took his trademark revivals to television, a new frontier for religion.
Roberts overcame tuberculosis at age 17, and he credited that triumph with leading him to become one of the country's most famous ministers.
By the 1960s and '70s, he was reaching millions around the world through radio, television, publications and personal appearances. He remained on TV into the new century, co-hosting the program, "Miracles Now," with son Richard. He published dozens of books and conducted hundreds of crusades. A famous photograph showed him working at a desk with a sign on it reading, "Make no little plans here."
His ministry hit upon rocky times in the 1980s. There was controversy over his City of Faith medical center, a $250 million investment that eventually folded, and Roberts' widely ridiculed proclamation that God would "call me home" if he failed to meet a fundraising goal of $8 million. (It was a plea that Chick mocked in one of his tracts.) A law school Roberts founded also was shuttered.
Semiretired in recent years and living in California, he returned to Tulsa in October 2007 as scandal roiled Oral Roberts University. His son, Richard Roberts, who succeeded him as university president, faced allegations of spending university money on shopping sprees and other luxuries at a time the institution was more than $50 million in debt. See Chick's REV. WONDERFUL.
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