Word: robertses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roberts himself does not seem to be taking an excessive profit. When the university was getting off the ground in the early 1960s, he and his wife turned over all their assets to the cause. He now receives only his university salary ($24,500 a year) and lives in the...
At least 800,000 of the most loyal supporters have become permanent "prayer partners" and receive monthly prayer letters from Oral. "Are you suffering?" asked a recent one. "Is pain raging through your body? Is your marriage falling apart? Does it seem that no one cares? I want to help...
Overnight Cure. Roberts still believes in and practices faith healing. Many of the cures he describes might be dismissed as psychogenic, but some-which he duly emphasizes-are not so easily explained. One of the most striking stories in his catalogue of claimed cures goes back to the early '...
Out this month is Roberts' 47th book, an autobiography entitled The Call, which has already sold 30,000 copies. Disarmingly folksy, the book takes Oral upward from his grim days as a preacher's son ("I felt quite sure that Jesus lived with us because Mamma and Papa...
The youthful dreams described in The Call continue to materialize today. Already Roberts' staff is having to turn down applicants for next year at O.R.U., perhaps partly because students are attracted by its heavily subsidized fees: $2,050 for board, room and tuition. The citizens of Tulsa have chipped...