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...City of Faith medical center he envisioned were institutions that could have transformed him into more than another theatrical evangelist, a descendant of the traveling preachers who made questionable careers saving souls and healing ills while spouting spiritual quackery for people desperate for comfort and accessible transcendence. In 1987, TIME reported that the medical center, which cost $250 million to build, was draining Roberts of $30 million to $40 million a year. In his 1995 autobiography, Expect a Miracle: My Life and Ministry, Roberts revealed that he had undertaken his unorthodox $8 million "Call Me Home" fund drive because...
...would later condemn his methods. For a while, his hospital and academic empire helped make him a pillar of Tulsa society. But the kind of faith he espoused was made of constant appeals to his audience to prove it to him - at $100 or less a pop. His old-time religion crumbled because it was built with small change...
...looking to provide them minimal levels of assistance. "We aren't condoning illegal immigration and aren't naive about the role of traffickers in all this," he says. "But offering a little humanitarian care to such vulnerable people is our duty as fellow human beings and Christians." (See the TIME video "In Calais, a Dead End for Refugees Bound for Britain...
...backer of Sarkozy's anti-immigration hard line, says her city and others on the coast are "hostage to the British" asylum laws. She says the U.K. should tighten those rather than shift the responsibility on French authorities to keep illegal aliens from making it to Britain. (Read a TIME postcard from Calais...
...TIME's Pictures of the Week...