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April 6, 2012
Spiritual Swinging: Shack Up With the Schullers For $700 a Night
Pack your pajamas and bring your Bible. Rev. Robert A. Schuller and his wife Donna are opening up their four-bedroom, four-bath, 3,200-square-foot Laguna Beach house with an ocean view to couples looking to light the fire again. They've posted an ad for the home on Airbnb.com, a websi ... More >>
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March 23, 2012
What We Learned, March 10-23: Double Fantasy Live Edition
My being on assignment last week forced my skipping last Friday's What We Learned. Not that anyone noticed . . . sniff . . . It's because I'm fat, isn't it!?! MARCH 10: UCI's Nobel Prize-winning chemist F. Sherwood Rowland (right) passes away at his Corona del Mar home from Parkinson's Disease co ... More >>
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March 12, 2012
Rev. Robert Schuller: Pimping God To The End
The Reverend Robert Schuller and his wife recently quit the board of the Garden Grove-based global televangelist church they recklessly drove into a massive $50 million bankruptcy and one of their daughters has announced she intends to create a new church.Most mainstream media accounts of the dev ... More >>
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March 7, 2012
Crystal Cathedral Cutting Kin
The Crystal Cathedral is becoming less of a family affair. Officials at the Garden Grove-based ministry confirmed this week that three people related to founder Robert H. Schuller were given the boot from leadership.
Blogs
November 18, 2011
Crystal Cathedral Bidding War Won by Catholic Diocese
A $59 million hail Mary by Chapman University did not overcome the hail Marys of parishoners, clergy and a certain bishop as a bankruptcy judge decided Thursday afternoon that the Crystal Cathedral will be sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange for $57.5 million.By siding with the Crystal C ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
5 Ways the Catholic Diocese or Chapman University Can Sweeten Their Offers to Buy Crystal Cathedral
A bankruptcy judge has said he'll make a decision Thursday on who the winning bidder is for Crystal Cathedral, Orange County's original Protestant megachurch that was completed in Garden Grove in 1980 and is now $46 million in debt.Bidding seems to have come down to two other Orange County instit ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
Bishop Tod D. Brown Fails OC Catholics Again by Failing to Buy Crystal Cathedral
Brownie: The Hour of No Power--againThe local and national media are tripping over themselves in reporting how the Crystal Cathedral's board of directors has approved Chapman University's offer to purchase the iconic church's Garden Grove facilities for $50 million. All the reports are also makin ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
Has the Robert H. Schuller Family Been Running a Crystal Ponzi Scheme Cathedral?
We posted an item earlier this morning about two Orange County men who stole nearly $10 million from investors in separate Ponzi schemes. Now, we must ask, what is it if not a Ponzi scheme the Robert H. Schuller family has been running, at least based on the lawsuit brought by unpaid creditors of ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
[UPDATED with Creditor Blowback:] New Bidder for Crystal Cathedral: Crystal Cathedral
UPDATE, AUG. 11, 12:22 P.M.: Crystal Cathedral's former chief financial officer, Fred Southard, strolled into a recent bankruptcy hearing in federal court in Santa Ana and shook his head. It just won't work, he commented to assembled reporters about the Robert H. Schuller family plan to turn to c ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
Sources: Robert Schuller Wants Crystal Cathedral Sold to Diocese of Orange, Daughters Don't
As I predicted a month-and-a-half ago, the Catholic Diocese of Orange is interested in buying the Crystal Cathedral from the Rev. Robert Schuller, mostly to save Bishop Tod D. Brown's ass from ever having to build the Tod Mahal that would've been Christ Our Savior Cathedral. This past weekend, OC ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Crystal Cathedral Mess Gets on Which Way, L.A.?
As Clockwork Coker reported yesterday, my (and Patty's and Chasen's) alma mater, Chapman University, want to buy the Crystal Cathedral--a beautiful proposal, given that the Rev. Robert Schuller set in motion the paranoid conservative politics that Chapman University now pride themselves on. It's ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Chapman University Wants to Buy Crystal Cathedral for $46 Million
Chapman University in Orange has submitted a $46 million bid to buy the Crystal Cathedral property and facilities in Garden Grove.The university's Board of Trustees authorized the proposal at its June 27 regularly scheduled meeting, something that was made public today in a filing made by the C ... More >>
Culture
June 16, 2011
'Earth-Like Planet' Says Extinction, Shmextinction
The Irvine Fine Arts exhibit avoids icky humans and focuses on the greener future
News
April 14, 2011
Robert Schuller's Glass House of God
[Moxley Confidential] Picking through the shards of the bankrupt televangelism empire.
Blogs
March 17, 2011
Robert Schuller Reiterates Crystal Cathedral Loves the Gays, as It Always Has
Poor Robert Schuller--in a way. The founder of the Crystal Cathedral, one of the architects of modern-day American Christianity, has seen his heir apparent split, donations to his church fall precipitously, and is now seeing his daughter try to swing the ministry to the homo-hating right by makin ... More >>
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December 28, 2010
Christianity Today Editorial Tells Readers Not to Blast Robert Schuller--Then Blasts Him
It's quite an Orange County issue for the latest Christianity Today. Yesterday, we reported on a great profile of Roberta Ahmanson, the wife half of the wacky-cause-giving Ahamansons. Turns out there's another titan of Orange County Christianity also discussed in the January 2011 issue--the Rev. ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
[UPDATED:] Crystal Cathedral's High Salaries Questioned in Bankruptcy Proceedings
Update, November 19, 2:50 p.m.: Creditors in the Crystal Cathedral bankruptcy proceedings have filed court documents that question the high salary of yet another employee.This one is is paid to the son-in-law of the church's Chief Financial Officer Fred Southard, whose $132,019 housing allowance ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
Crystal Cathedral Declares Bankruptcy--Why Robert Schuller Had it Coming
The news is traveling across the wires right now that the Crystal Cathedral, that iconic Garden Grove congregation that started the modern-day megachurch movement, has declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The best coverage of this story has happened in the pages of the Orange County Register, specific ... More >>
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August 2, 2010
Matching Food Network Stars with their TBN Alter Egos!
I see Food Network shows occasionally, about as much as I watch the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Maybe I'm just a fool (actually, I am!), maybe I've seen too much of each channel, but some of their star personalities start melding into each other until the TBN and the FN personalities are ind ... More >>
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July 19, 2010
Robert H. Schuller Continues Speaking Engagements as his Crystal Cathedral Burns
Much has been made of the problems of OC's original megachurch, the Crystal Cathedral, in the past year, and the Orange County Register's Deepa Bharath has done a great job documenting the splits between the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, his children and former congregants. While other local megachurc ... More >>
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June 19, 2010
Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan No Fan of the Rev. Robert Schuller
Poor Robert Schuller--literally. Not only is his Crystal Cathedral millions of dollars in debt, not only are former members of his congregation ridiculing Schuller's children for mismanaging Orange County's original mega-church, but now he has to deal with Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan ridicu ... More >>
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December 7, 2009
Why is Robert Schuller Still Giving Self-Help Talks?
While Rick Warren has influenced two continents, for better or worse, and Chuck Smith can enjoy the twilight of his life knowing Calvary Chapel is one of America's great Christian quasi-denominations, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller faces the prospect of ending up as Orange County's Aimee Semple McPh ... More >>
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October 14, 2009
North Carolina Pastor to Burn Books of Local "Heretics" Rick Warren, Robert Schuller, and Benny Hinn
I thought book burnings in the South went with the way of the Beatles, but this shows how much I know: to celebrate Halloween, Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina will host an ol'-fashioned Scripture bonfire complete with "Bar-b-Que Chicken, fried chicken, and all the sides," acco ... More >>
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August 19, 2008
Rick Warren Superstar
Just about everything that can be said has been said about pastor Rick Warren's performance this past weekend with underlings John McCain and Barack Obama. Except this: by getting all moving cameras in the Free World fixed on his Saddleback Church, Warren officially propelled himself past two other ... More >>
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August 15, 2008
Warren Ain't no Schuller
The eyes of America fall upon Saddleback Church tomorrow, where recent Time cover boy Rick Warren plays Tim Russert while he interviews presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama. There is a lot of grousing amongst people for the outlandish admission fees Warren is charging, monies he claims ... More >>
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June 30, 2008
Rev. Schuller Spins Orange Coast Magazine
Like Rich, we're excited to see the "new" Orange Coast, and wish it the best even though it's now technically a competitor. I've yet to see the issue that Rich dissected but did catch the one before, one that already had hints of the literary journalism and well-written analysis readers can expect u ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2008
Hour of Power Now 2,000 Episodes Old
Sorry I'm late on this, but The Hour of Power—that uniquely Orange County slice of televised Christianity hosted from Garden Grove's Crystal Cathedral by Robert H. Schuller and his son, Robert A.—celebrated its 2,000th consecutive broadcast on June 1. Watch it here. Thinking about how this Pa ... More >>
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May 1, 2008
Crazy Christians Trash Schuller on National Day of Prayer
Today is the National Day of Prayer, a chance for America's most-oppressed people—Christians—to ignore the Nazarene's advice and insist the world see them pray. Heading the affair is Shirley Dobson, wife of Focus on the Family overlord James Dobson. To plug the event, Shirley appeared on the Hou ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2008
At Your Service: Main Place Christian Fellowship Church Prayer Booth
Welcome to the first installment of my weekly church review, where I'll visit houses of worship—Christian, Muslim, Baha'i, even Scientologist—and examine what folks of faith need to know: theology, environment, parking, and the all-important sermon. Suggestions for churches to review in the comm ... More >>
Blogs
December 4, 2007
Robert Schuller to Bury Evel Knievel
For another reason why this paper has been historically softer on the Reverend Robert Schuller than on Orange County's other wacky Christians (though read this article for proof we're not that soft), look no further than the announcement that Schuller will preside over Evel Knievel's funeral in Mont ... More >>
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November 26, 2007
OC Pastors Jihadi Appeasers?
That's what the Michelle Malkins and Jonathan Constantines of the world will undoubtedly screech once this open letter of apology to Muslims by Christian pastors percolates through the blogosphere. The letter--which appeared Nov. 18 as a full-page ad in the New York Times--is an ecumenical overture ... More >>
Features
December 28, 2006
Diary of a Mad Year
Jan. 1-Dec. 13
Columns
January 5, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
I didn't get what I wanted for Christmas, and now you're gonna pay!
Features
October 20, 2005
Garden Grove
I didn't get what I wanted for Christmas, and now you're gonna pay!
Features
August 4, 2005
Church du Soleil
The Rev. Schuller's daughter puts on a show. Very cool puppets rule
Culture
August 4, 2005
Church du Soleil
The Rev. Schuller's daughter puts on a show. Very cool puppets rule
Columns
April 7, 2005
Diary of a Mad County
The Rev. Schuller's daughter puts on a show. Very cool puppets rule
Columns
February 24, 2005
Letters
The Rev. Schuller's daughter puts on a show. Very cool puppets rule
Columns
February 10, 2005
Diary of a Mad County
The Rev. Schuller's daughter puts on a show. Very cool puppets rule
Columns
May 15, 2003
Diary of a Mad County
The Rev. Schuller's daughter puts on a show. Very cool puppets rule
Features
November 7, 2002
Son of Scary
Evil spawn of OCs Scariest People
News
April 11, 2002
To Protect and Swerve
Garden Grove police say their chaplain, a man with ties to neo-Nazis, is no problem
News
March 14, 2002
Crystal Unclear
Schuller probes advisers neo-Nazi past
Features
February 21, 2002
Hour of White Power
Reverend Robert H. Schuller relies on a man with ties to Neo-Nazis to build religious understanding
Columns
February 7, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
Reverend Robert H. Schuller relies on a man with ties to Neo-Nazis to build religious understanding
Columns
January 24, 2002
Letters
Reverend Robert H. Schuller relies on a man with ties to Neo-Nazis to build religious understanding
Film
March 29, 2001
Sex, Drugs and Narcissism
The fifth annual Calleys
Columns
January 4, 2001
The Year in Letters
The fifth annual Calleys
Features
October 26, 2000
6: Achievement in Music and Throbbing Goat Love
...Wait. Strike that Last One.
Columns
January 6, 2000
Bottom of the Mailbag
...Wait. Strike that Last One.
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