Lord have mercy!!! Crystal Cathedral teeters on the edge

[devilgrrl]

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — Capitalizing on the emerging car culture of Southern California in the 1950s, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller started a drive-in church and built it into an international televangelist empire, symbolized by the soaring glass Crystal Cathedral and its weekly "Hour of Power" show.

Now Schuller's life's work is crumbling. :wow:

The organization declared bankruptcy this week in a collapse blamed by some on its inability to keep up with the times and a disastrous attempt to hand the church over to Schuller's son.

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Schuller soon turned his humble pulpit into one of the nation's first megachurches, beaming his weekly Sunday service into 1 million homes worldwide through the "Hour of Power" TV show, which went on the air in 1970. Schuller became a familiar presence on television, a smiling figure in flowing robes, with snowy white hair and wire-rimmed aviator glasses.

In 1980, he opened the Crystal Cathedral, a 2,900-seat see-through church made of 10,664 panes of glass. A $20 million architectural marvel designed by the acclaimed Philip Johnson, it became a major Southern California landmark and tourist attraction. Schuller soon added a K-12 school and a tourist center.

(To this day, you can pull up to the Crystal Cathedral and listen to the service in your car through small speakers in the parking lot.) :eyes:

more: http://tinyurl.com/2bmgnql

[sakabatou]

1. So it's not just iron chariots that God can't defeat (Judges 1:19 )

He can't stop bankruptsy?

[rug]

5. Judges 4:12-16

[Ron Green]

2. Pride goeth before

a big ol' smackdown.

[JuniperLea]

3. It's God's will that this "church" goes away...

I'm thinking.

[daylan b]

4. Nepotism

Sure, it's good at destroying businesses but it's amazing at destroying churches.

[kestrel91316]

6. Gosh, no one could have ever forseen THIS.

[Liberal Veteran]

7. No biggie. I got dibs on it as my Fortress of Solitude after the rapture.

I also will be cornering the market in Post-Rapture Windex.

[SoCalDem]

8. May it crash to the ground in a bazillion jagged pieces

preferably, with the "faithful" & the preachers standing under it:evilgrin:

[zbdent]

9. I wonder if God knows where all his money went ...

Rex Humjob, er, Humbard's "Tower to Nowhere" in Akron Ohio ...