{"id":69121,"date":"2015-04-02T14:29:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T19:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=69121"},"modified":"2015-04-05T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T21:57:11","slug":"televangelist-robert-schuller-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=69121","title":{"rendered":"Televangelist Robert Schuller passes April 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/schullerrobert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69122\" alt=\"schullerrobert\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/schullerrobert.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a>Los Angeles &#8211; Televangelist and Crystal Cathedral megachurch founder Robert Schuller, known worldwide for his weekly &#8220;Hour of Power&#8221; broadcasts, died in Southern California on Thursday.\u00a0 He was 88.<\/p>\n<p>The death of Schuller, who was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2013, marked a closing chapter for a congregation he began in 1955 when he started holding services in a rented drive-in movie theater and built into a worldwide following.<\/p>\n<p>His weekly television broadcast aired for more than four decades, featuring celebrity guests and drawing some 30 million viewers a week at its peak.<\/p>\n<p>He retired as senior pastor of the\u00a0<a id=\"\/search\/entity?entityId=http%3A%2F%2Fd.opencalais.com%2FgenericHasher-1%2Fd5bb38d8-6a1d-3297-8054-0147bc283803&amp;sort=date&amp;terms=%22Protestant%20church%22\"><\/a>Protestant church\u00a0in 2006 and resigned from its board six years later in a financial dispute with its leaders following the $57.5 million bankruptcy sale of the\u00a0<a id=\"\/search\/entity?entityId=http%3A%2F%2Fd.opencalais.com%2FgenericHasher-1%2F4dba64c7-ba5d-3112-97b5-2da7917916e0&amp;sort=date&amp;terms=%22Crystal%20Cathedral%22\"><\/a>Crystal Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Crystal Cathedral\u00a0Ministries moved its services to new quarters at the\u00a0Shepherd&#8217;s Grove Church\u00a0under the direction of a new pastor, Schuller&#8217;s grandson,\u00a0Robert Vernon &#8220;Bobby&#8221; Schuller.<\/p>\n<p>More at the <a title=\"OCRegister\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/schuller-656270-church-cathedral.html\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County Register<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles &#8211; Televangelist and Crystal Cathedral megachurch founder Robert Schuller, known worldwide for his weekly &#8220;Hour of Power&#8221; broadcasts, died in Southern California on Thursday.\u00a0 He was 88. The death of Schuller, who was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2013, marked a closing chapter for a congregation he began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69295,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69121\/revisions\/69295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}