Oral Roberts University president Richard Roberts gave his first public interview Tuesday night, one week after being sued by three former professors. Roberts and his wife Lindsay appeared on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” During the interview, Roberts stressed that he has done nothing wrong, and the allegations he is facing are completely unfounded…
"Like my son says, it was a surprise and somewhat of a shock, but we have been through some tough times building Oral Roberts University going back to the 1960s, and we have survived them all, and built a university that we believe is for the glory of God," ORU founder Oral Roberts told Larry King via the telephone.
Two of the three former ORU professors also spoke to CNN recently. Among other things, they have accused Roberts of ordering students and faculty to campaign for Tulsa Mayoral candidate Randi Miller. During that campaign, they say a student discovered incriminating files on a computer belonging to Roberts’ sister-in-law. The professors say the files showed that Roberts and his family had misused university funds. They say they were fired after mentioning what they had found…
John Swails and Tim Brooker told CNN that the lawsuit is just the tip of the iceberg, and there is more information they don’t even want made public.
"We’re interested in truth, and we’re interested in justice. The things that were in those files, if untrue, would be so damaging that they would never recover,” former ORU professor Tim Brooker told CNN during an interview earlier this month…
Televangelists rarely disappoint. Oral Roberts was the grandfather of Televangelism, at least in my home town. There in the flickering Black and White of the 50’s television set every Sunday he gave us a picture of what was to come – speaking in tongues, healing, wailing prayers. He was a groundbreaker. And now Junior and his Missus are looking like they’re about to light up the news with graft, corruption, and hints of
minor league hanky panky. They’re following in the footsteps of some greats – Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, Ted Haggard.
I would be surprised if these allegations prove to be wrong. Just read the reader comments to
this Tula World article. Apparently this lavish lifestyle was there for all to see. Watching son Richard on T.V., he seems to be a totally plastic figure, lacking any of the tortured zeal of his now 89 year old dad. Oral could go from beautific smile to contorted grimace to piously prayerful in seconds. Back in those days when T.V. was live, he’d sometimes lose his timing and get rushed. When that happened, his dramatic changes in facial expression would get out of synch with what he was saying. It was extrordinarily funny. Oral Roberts Sunday T.V. Show was an important part of my own early iconoclasm. Only Jimmy Swaggart ever held a candle to Oral’s antics. Oral, it seems, was no stranger to
scandal himself. By any count, he also holds the indoor record for direct conversations with God. It’s good to see Oral back in the news, if only through his remarkably less-talented son and apparently way out-of-control daughter-in-law.
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