Robert Schuller

50 Reasons Why Orange County is The Worst Effing Place in America

It was gay rights icon Harvey Milk who described Orange County best, in response to California State Senator John Briggs describing San Francisco as "the moral garbage dump of homosexuality in this country." "Nobody likes garbage 'cause it smells," Milk told reporters. "Yet eight million tourists vi ... More >>

The OCeeker: Hope Center of Christ and the Fantastic Voyage From the Crystal Cathedral to the Crystal Ballroom

The OCeeker loves him some irony. And who does irony better than the Almighty? Consider this, ye heathen: Sheila Schuller Coleman, former leader of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, the iconic megachurch founded by her father, Robert H. Schuller, is now preaching to a 100 or so b ... More >>

Jim Gilchrist Asked Deborah Pauly During Villa Park Council Meeting to Not Speak to CCIR; What did Pauly Do?

​Just got a note from Jim Gilchrist, the longtime anti-illegals guy and persistent thorn in the side of true Know Nothings. Seems that he attended the Villa Park City Council meeting this Tuesday to ask Drunken Deborah Pauly to not address the California Coalition for Immigration Reform meeting th ... More >>

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 >>

Schuller Coleman's Church Becomes Travelling Road Show

​Hope Center of Christ, the "let's flee from Crystal Cathedral and not look back lest we turn into a pillar of salt" church founded by Robert Schuller's daughter, Sheila Schuller Coleman, held a service Sunday at its first temporary tabernacle -- an AMC movie theater at the Outlets at Orange.The f ... More >>

Trinity of Schullers Out at Crystal Cathedral

​Sheila Schuller Coleman's announcement Sunday that she was stepping down as senior pastor from the Crystal Cathedral brought to a close a weekend in which her family appears to have severed ties with the iconic Garden Grove-based megachurch. She made the announcement during Sunday services, ... More >>

Donations Down, Reruns Up at Crystal Cathedral

​Crystal Cathedral may want to consider sowing a financial seed into the Trinity Broadcasting Network. After all, the TV ministry's holy hucksters promise that those who do will reap financial fruit.The house that Robert Schuller built apparently was built on shifting sands, as donations to Crysta ... More >>

Schuller Shakeup at Crystal Cathedral: Reverend Robert's Daughter 'Temporarily' off board

​The Crystal Cathedral announced in a statement Wednesday that Senior Pastor Sheila Schuller Coleman is temporarily leaving the board of directors. "The leadership changes to the Board of Directors for Crystal Cathedral Ministries are temporary and we believe that they will be good for the Cr ... More >>

What We Learned

The Year on Navel Gazing and Beyond!

[UPDATED with God Smack:] Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson Coming to the Angels

​UPDATE, DEC. 8, 2:50 P.M.: Step aside, Rick Warren, Robert Schuller and Bishop Tod Brown: the next great Orange County Christian soldier may very well be Albert Pujols. Christian author Scott Lamb, who co-wrote Pujols: More Than a Game, believes the slugger may do more than knock baseballs over t ... More >>

15,000 OC Third-Graders Pack Angels Stadium to Get Brainwashed by Corporations, Political Hacks on OC "History"

​Until yesterday, the most-infamous case of OC mass schoolkid indoctrination was a 1961 rally at Glover Stadium in Anaheim held by the Orange County School of Anti-Communism, a red-baiting machine whose members included Walter Knott and the Rev. Robert A. Schuller, and whose paranoia set the stage ... More >>

OC's Scariest People 2011

Celebrating the Day of the Dead with some of the county's worst offenders

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 >>

5 Churches That Should Buy Crystal Cathedral

Would you buy a church from these guys?​Drowning in debt, Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral is reportedly being put up for sale. The American Independent surmises the mega-church's dire financial straits demonstrate conservatism is on the wane behind the Orange Curtain. But rather than wallow in ... More >>

Top 15 Notable OC Quotes of 2010

Rev. Schuller: Give me mo' money!​15. "I want to tongue every inch of you because I love you."--A text message Oxford Academy high-school history teacher Christopher John Ontiveros allegedly sent to a 17-year-old female student before his arrest for sex crimes.14. "[Barney Frank] will be shot dead ... More >>

As the Crystal Cathedral Teeters on its Last Lifeline, Sheila Schuller Coleman Goes on 11-Day Cruise in Greece

​Here's one way to deal with the fact that your iconic megachurch is facing the biggest crisis in its history: Take a vacation. While the Crystal Cathedral has filed for bankruptcy, senior pastor Sheila Schuller Coleman is off on a 11-day cruise to Greece.

Sunday News Notes: Reg Slams Loretta Sanchez

​Local news highlights include:Register against Loretta Sanchez but drags out marijuana stanceThe editorial staff of the OC Register has declared itself for congressional candidate Van Tran, a Republican; U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, a Republican; and Whitman, yep, a Republican. "From our ... More >>

Rev. Robert Schuller Wants Your Money For His Wild Spending

Schuller: Maybe those $45 hamburgers were too much.​It was only a matter of time before millionaire Rev. Robert H. Schuller of Garden Grove's Crystal Cathedral was once again seeking charity from those less fortunate than himself.Yep, he's got an incredibly comfortable life and he wildly spent mor ... More >>

Celebrate Nixon Library's 20th Anniversary, But Remember His Pal George Steinbrenner, Too

​A weekend of events to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Richard Nixon's library--or "The Dick," as the hepcats call it--kicked off this morning with the laying of wreaths at the graves of the 37th president and his wife Pat.However, before we get to the other fun-filled festivities that are in s ... More >>

KCRW's Good Food Starts a Pie Blog, Gustavo Rants about Boysenberries

Boysenberry pie on floor​KCRW-FM 89.9's Good Food with Evan Kleiman program is branching out into the world of pies. For the next couple of months, the show's blog will have a blog post daily on pies. Yours truly, as a Good Food contributor, wrote a rant for them on boysenberry pie, which I've inc ... More >>

Michael Scott Kerr Continues to Antagonize Former Allies

Kerr at left, with the Rev. Robert A. Schuller. Fleecers of a feather...​With the exception of the late fraud king Eddie Allen, I can't recall anyone who has burned more trusting people and made more enemies out of former allies than Michael Scott Kerr. You remember him: the guy who wanted to help ... More >>

Hate Fighters Fight Each Other: CAIR vs. Brian Levin

Malik Ali, at UCI earlier this year...​It was quite the heated, unexpected exchange today on KPFK-FM 90.7's Uprising morning programming (produced by Weekly contributor and Anaheim boy Gabriel San Roman) between two seeming allies. In one corner: Brian Levin, recent Best of OC profile subject and ... More >>

Arrest Warrant Issued for Habitual Deadbeat Dad Michael Scott Kerr (Again)

Kerr at left, with the Rev. Robert A. Schuller. Fleecers of a feather...​Hey, anyone know where Michael Scott Kerr is? The man who wanted to take care of military children who lost their fathers in battle, but couldn't be bothered to pay nearly $50,000 in child support? Who set up a non-profit for ... More >>

Has Orange County Christianity Jumped the Shark?

The country is abuzz with President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Saddleback Church's Rick "Purpose-Driven Life" Warren to offer the invocation at next month's presidential inauguration. Let others debate the merits of the choice--I personally think Warren's beginning to wade into the political wat ... More >>

Is Rick Warren a Terrorist Appeaser?

That's the stunning insinuation put forth by Joseph Farrah, editor of the conservative website WorldNetDaily. Farrah takes Warren--head of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, author of The Purpose-Driven Life...are you readers really that much of heathens or OC-illiterate that I need to continue?--to ... More >>

Letters

"Go ahead and gloat."

Jerry Falwell's OC Connections

Noted evangelical windbag Jerry Falwell was raptured today, and we're sure God strained his back from carrying that hefty sack into the sky. In honor of his death, we submit some of Falwell's brushes with our sordid county: • Back in the early 1990s, Orange County-based Citizens for Honest gov ... More >>

Orange County History Via KOCE

We love KOCE-TV Channel 50, watch it for television genius (and Orange County Business Journal editor) Rick Reiff's wonderful coif, the in-depth author interviews conducted by Maria Hall-Brown, and the Register-friendly worldview of Real Orange. So it pains us to discover that KOCE president Mel Rog ... More >>

Paradise by the Plasma Light

Kutlug Atamans American dreams dont always play so well on the screen

The Old Porno Slur (Snowball Edition)

In porno parlance, to snowball someone is to swallow a guy's semen, then kiss him and deposit the gunk in his mouth. Why do we bring this vile practice up? Only 'cause Michael Scott Kerr insists. Kerr, you'll remember, is the man behind Snowball Express, an organization that will fly into Orange Co ... More >>

Commie Girl

Of Fullerton bars and gaygaygay holiday spectaculars

Stories That Made a Difference

And some we regret

Diary of a Mad County

Orange County - The Quiz

Eight Days

From Nazis to Schuller to Arabs

Former neo-Nazi leader Bill Baker now speaks on the Muslim circuit

Letters

Have Badge, Will Skate

Anaheim seems content to let controversial cop continue brutalizing citizens

Das Boot!

Crystal Cathedral evicts preacher with neo-Nazi ties

Tweekers Ball

This is your art on drugs

Letters

Diary of a Mad County

Harold Ezell is Still Dead

But we need more little deaths

1: Shall We Begin?

Computer Girls Christmas Guide

Confessions of an online Christmas shopper

100 Things that Four Years of College will Teach You

An Incomplete History of Gay & Lesbian OC

The Year in Floodlights and Grease Paint

The Year in Oval Office Bootie Calls

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