The Crystal Cathedral soon became a draw for various activities and entertainers — the list became secular enough that state officials deemed the venue too much of a commercial venture and temporarily stripped the property of its tax exemption. In the end, Schuller paid part of the back taxes the state sought, and the church was again declared tax-exempt.
By , the scandals that had engulfed Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker created fundraising shortfalls for other televangelists, including Schuller. But the church was able to rebound. In , before the Iron Curtain fell, Schuller became the first pastor to preach on television in the Soviet Union. As a sign of its influence, five U. Away from the pulpit, Schuller was often quick-tempered and controlling.
In conversation, he is perpetually dominant, both condescending and pedantic. He displays not the slightest trace of spontaneous humor, rarely smiles and never seems to laugh. It served as a visitors center and was included in the sale to the Catholic Church. Video: Famed televangelist dies at Obituaries database: Religious leaders. Sylvere Lotringer, intellectual who infused U. Bobbie Kirkhart, the matriarch of atheism in L. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries.
That's been my ministry for 45 years. I'm not interested in talking to people who have religion. I'm trying to talk to people who turn God off. That message — punctuated by his catch phrase, "If you can dream it, you can do it" — helped make Schuller one of the earlier shepherds of what's now called a "megachurch," Garden Grove Community Church and then the Crystal Cathedral.
He was an unofficial adviser and counselor to Presidents Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H. Schuller delivered the invocation at the Republican National Convention, a few months after Bush visited the Crystal Cathedral to pray with Schuller on the night of the California presidential primary.
But Schuller largely tried to stay out of electoral politics, refusing to endorse candidates and declaring that had he been asked to preach at a Democratic convention, "I would have accepted that, too. Schuller delivered the invocation at the Republican National Convention, a few months after Bush visited the Crystal Cathedral to pray with him on the night of the California presidential primary. Unlike the ministries of other prominent televangelists, such as Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker, Schuller's ministry largely remained free of scandal — but not entirely free of it.
The ministry began to fall apart in , when Schuller removed his son, Robert A. Schuller, as senior pastor just two years after having appointed him, citing a "lack of shared vision. Just three months later, Coleman announced that the church was seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In July , Coleman ousted her father from the Crystal Cathedral, and by the next year, she had left to start her own ministry.
Schuller had been diagnosed with cancer in Schuller began preaching in at an Orange County drive-in theater. He became known for his preaching on the power of possibility thinking. In , he started a weekly TV ministry called the Hour of Power. A decade later he built a glass cathedral to house his growing ministry. At one time the Hour of Power program attracted millions of viewers in countries. After a leadership transition led to a decline in membership, Crystal Cathedral Ministries filed for bankruptcy in
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