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Within the last few weeks, Hinn, Duplantis and Dollar left the board citing demands of their ministries. Green tells CBS News that the idea was to move away from an organization dominated by the founder to one of "shared governance. Last fall, the head of Oral Roberts University Richard Roberts who is Oral Roberts' son, stepped down amid a financial scandal and mounting debt. Structured data Items portrayed in this file depicts. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2. Categories : CityPlex Towers in Oklahoma.

Namespaces File Discussion. Views View Edit History. Main page Welcome Community portal Village pump Help center. Upload file Recent changes Latest files Random file Contact us. Download as PDF Printable version. Permission Reusing this file. So much was riding on that baby. Oral led the family in prayer before the funeral. Not long after his daughter and son-in-law died in a tragic plane crash, Oral had a vision of a foot Jesus who told him to build a Christian medical center.

The problem was that Tulsa already had more than enough hospital beds. Oral predicted—wrongly, it turned out—that believers would flock to Tulsa for a hybrid of modern medicine and faith healing. Instead, City of Faith hemorrhaged cash. Around the same time, Oral decided that he needed a Beverly Hills home. He resigned from the board. Strapped for cash, in ORU shuttered both the dentistry and the law school.

Things reached a new low in Oral claimed he had raised the dead. But, regardless, the medical center closed in Then, the rest of City of Faith closed in Oral was growing old. Sure, Oral racked up debts, but he could also bring in the big money. Oral turned to his board of regents for reassurance. How do you think Richard did last night? What do you think about the future? Do you think he can handle this? Billy Joe [Daugherty], myself, Larry Lea—anybody.

Kenneth Copeland, all the preachers on the board. Because all those preachers understood they would want their son to succeed them. Richard conformed; Ronnie rebelled. Marvin Shirley, a close friend from All Souls, remembers Ronnie as a liberal rationalist who read widely, was fluent in five languages, and viewed the Bible as a historical document.

This was the ultimate apostasy for a child of Oral Roberts. John Wolf. Oral would demand that Ronnie shave his beard, for a beard stood for hippies and secularism and everything that the ministry was not; Ronnie would refuse.

In the programs Ronnie usually ended up in the background or off to the side of the frame somewhere. One Sunday, the televangelist himself showed up at All Souls, Wolf remembers. Oral and Wolf were friendly antagonists in those days. He left town for college and headed to Stanford, dropped out after a year, and joined the army as a linguist, teaching Mandarin in Vietnam. He had himself removed from the family trust fund. After spending three years in a PhD program at the University of Southern California, it was a job offer that brought Ronnie back to Tulsa.

He taught at a local high school and started an antiques business. Toward the end of his life, Ronnie developed an addiction to cold medication. Finally, he reached a breaking point. He pleaded guilty to forging a prescription for Tussionex and was placed on probation. Ronnie was considering a job that Oral had recently offered him at the university—a move Oral had made many times, always on condition that he shave his beard and quit smoking.

Submit, obey. At the time, Ronnie was estranged from his wife and children, living in an apartment just off Peoria Avenue.

Even though he was at the end of the line—his antiques business had failed, his marriage had failed—this time was no different. Ronnie told his mother that he could never take something simply because he was a Roberts. Ronnie had written that he looked forward to seeing his older sister, Rebecca, again. Richard broke the news to Oral and Evelyn. In the aftermath, Oral and Evelyn pored over their memories, wondering if there was something they could have done differently.

Lives, especially ones that end in suicide, do not lend themselves to neat lines of causation. Even now, over 30 years later, longtime friend Marvin Shirley is still mystified that Ronnie—a sensitive soul, a flautist—would ever shoot a gun, for any reason. Ron was gay—a fact that his father could not accept. However Ron told me his father loved him and had never withdrawn support, either financially or emotionally.

His family has denied that sexual orientation was a factor [in his suicide]. Remembering his anguish at Stanford, I am certain it was the cause, and that drugs were a futile attempt to mask the pain he must have suffered every day.

When I met him he was a terribly troubled youth, struggling with who he was. It was a time when getting married was the only way to have a normal life, to have a family. Both are gay. They too were once princelings, living in the royal Roberts compound.

In , when Evelyn died, they went together to the funeral. At the grave, they tried to enter the Roberts family tent but were turned away by a guard. Lindsay changed over the years.

By the time she was the first lady of ORU, she had a small village of people she could phone who would do her bidding. Sometimes she was sweet and maternal, sometimes cruel and wrathful. She would throw explosive temper tantrums, according to former employees. Richard and Lindsay did not respond to several interview requests. All three eventually enrolled. Whatever the Roberts daughters wished, they received.

They wanted a Pilates class to fulfill their PE requirement, so the school had to invent a Pilates class, recalls a faculty member. A charming figure on campus, Richard was popular with the student body. But the alumni had given up on him long ago. Alums had so little confidence in him that only about six percent were ponying up donations. Oral summoned the tenured faculty for a three-hour meeting. He said he was there to listen, asking them to speak freely and openly.

One by one, speaking directly to Richard, the professors rattled off their complaints. Richard pleaded with them to stay, at least for a few more years. He explained his ministry would be under a cloud if he were to be ousted, remembers the faculty member. Lindsay had resigned from the board of regents and, he promised, would no longer involve herself in university affairs.

His hearing was going, and he needed a walker. But ever the benevolent dictator, Oral demanded obedience. He asked everyone who agreed with him to stand—an old power play from his repertoire. But I am not going to allow him to come back as president. Richard and Roberta, the two youngest Roberts children, are the only surviving siblings of the four. Approaching his room, Roberta and Richard heard Oral singing from his hospital bed.

Richard knew all the words, of course. Roberta mixed up some of the verses, and Oral, on his deathbed with pneumonia, cut in to correct her—multiple times.

Richard and Roberta both delivered eulogies. He even got to sing a song. All of the luminaries of the Pentecostal world came to mark the death of the patriarch. Richard was meting out punishment for disloyalty—for not standing by him unconditionally as ORU president, says a former regent. Roberta was a lonely child.