Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roberts, says Harrell, had a "flirtation with respectability in the 1960s and 1970s," when he left the faith-healing circuit to build Oral Roberts University, of which he is president. The 4,650-student campus includes an 11,500-seat arena and schools of medicine, theology, business, education and nursing. The overall complex, with its 60-story clinic and other medical buildings, retirement apartments and two visitors' centers, is valued at $500 million...
Roberts seems to be instinctively returning to his roots in revival-tent Pentecostalism. He is re-emphasizing faith healing and is reaching for his old-time constituency as his income slides (from $88 million in 1980 to $55 million in 1986, according to the Tulsa Tribune) and his largely vacant City of Faith Medical Center continues to lose money ($10.7 million last year). Roberts has quietly tried to sell or lease the medical complex, and is negotiating with a subsidiary of National Medical Enterprises to manage...
...most South Koreans seemed inclined to view the reform package as a ^ good-faith offer. "We have finished the first struggle," said one student leader. "Now let's see how it turns out." For the first time in more than three weeks, riot police disappeared from the streets, and cities were generally quiet...
North came by his religious faith early. His mother was a devout Catholic, and her son was an altar boy from about age six through his last year of high school. "He had the face of an angel," says Evelyn Ronsani, North's fourth- grade catechism teacher. "You couldn't take your eyes off him." Although not a Catholic, North's father dutifully attended Mass with the family...
...moment North seems to be depending on prayer as much as legal advice. "His faith in the Lord is his backbone right now," says his sister Patricia, who lives in California. Though he still considers himself a Roman Catholic, North now attends the Church of the Apostles, an Episcopalian congregation in Fairfax, Va., known for such charismatic practices as faith healing and speaking in tongues. North has told his fellow churchgoers about how, at Camp Lejeune in 1978, he suffered a sudden bout of back pain. An officer knelt before him, laid on his hands and "healed...