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Oral Roberts. Granville Oral Roberts (January 24, 1918 – December 15, 2009 [1][2]) was an American Charismatic Christian televangelist, who was one of the first to propagate Prosperity Gospel Theology. He was ordained in the Pentecostal Holiness Church from 1936 until his transfer to the United Methodist church in 1968, a controversial ...
Ronnie Roberts, the son of Oral Roberts, came out as gay to the Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, in the early 1980s. Six months later, Ronnie Roberts committed suicide. [65] As of December 7, 2021, an online petition to "Tell Oral Roberts University: Change your anti-LGBTQ honor code" had gained over 10,000 signatures.
Carlton D'Metrius Pearson was born on March 19, 1953, in San Diego, California.He attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, where he was mentored by Oral Roberts, and sang with the World Action Singers, later becoming an associate evangelist with the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association.
Kenneth Max Copeland was born on December 6, 1936, [1] raised in West Texas near a United States Army Air Forces airfield. This inspired him to become a pilot. [2] [3]Copeland was a recording artist on the Imperial Records label, having one Billboard Top 40 hit, "Pledge of Love", which charted in the Top 40 on April 20, 1957, stayed on the charts for 15 weeks, and peaked at No. 17.
Jack Coe. Jack Coe (March 11, 1918 – December 16, 1956) was an American Pentecostal evangelist, nicknamed "the man of reckless faith". He was one of the first faith healers in the United States with a touring tent ministry after World War II. Coe was ordained in the Assemblies of God in 1944, and began to preach while still serving in World ...
In U.S. Supreme Court history, " The switch in time that saved nine " is the phrase—originally a quip by humorist Cal Tinney [1] —about what was perceived in 1937 as the sudden jurisprudential shift by associate justice Owen Roberts in the 1937 case West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish. [2] Conventional historical accounts portrayed the Court's ...
Oral Roberts is (in 1987) the head of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association a $500 million conglomerate which includes, among other things, Oral Roberts University, various hospitals and medical research facilities, a dental school, and a law school. These institutions employ 2800 people in Tulsa, Oklahoma and attract 200,000 visitors a ...
Richard Lee Roberts was born on November 12, 1948, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of evangelist Granville Oral Roberts and schoolteacher Evelyn Lutman Roberts. The third of four children, Richard had an older sister, Rebecca Ann, who was killed, along with her husband, Marshall Nash, in a plane crash in 1977; and an older brother, Ronald David, who committed suicide in 1982, six months after ...