Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles-based Correspondents Michael Riley and Jon D. Hull, Dolan spent the past month digging into the finances and organization of Jim Bakker's Praise the Lord and other major television ministries. While waiting to see Oral Roberts at his university in Tulsa, Dolan came upon the famous faith healer, his pants rolled up, knee-deep in a medium-size artificial pond, where he was anointing 200 of the faithful. Recalls Dolan: "That scene gave me an insight into the impact of these television preachers on their followers...
Riley tracked down Presidential Candidate Pat Robertson and other preachers. "In the wake of the PTL scandal, some of the loudest calls for openness and accountability have come from the televangelists," notes Riley. Indeed, some offered thin press releases and unrevealing brochures to show good faith. That only indicated, as this week's stories attest, that most TV ministries have a long way to go before their financial disclosures are as effective as their preaching...
...White House meeting on Dec. 7, 1985, Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger argued strenuously against a plan to sell arms to Iran as a gesture of "good faith" in getting hostages released and initiating a broader dialogue. Shultz thought he and Weinberger had squelched the idea. Neither Cabinet officer was told by the President that just two days previously he had signed a finding giving retroactive approval to U.S. participation in three earlier arms sales involving Israel, deals of which Shultz was unaware...
...ministry's activities earn some $183 million annually. In Tulsa, Oral Roberts, 69, a member of the United Methodist Church but Pentecostal in style, oversees daily and weekly television shows and presides over a $500 million complex, including the 4,650-student Oral Roberts University and the City of Faith Hospital. Annual budget: some $120 million. Robert Schuller, 60, who was ordained by the Reformed Church in America, broadcasts his syndicated weekly Hour of Power shows from the $20 million Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., and takes in some $42 million annually...
CAPTION: SHAKEN FAITH...