Category: Crystal Cathedral

Positive thinking guru Robert Schuller has published a video in which he says his “financial future may be at risk” due to the bankruptcy of the Crystal Cathedral Ministries.

Crystal Cathedral Ministries says in a response that the $3.5 million settlement the Schullers demand would leave the ministry virtually no funds to continue its ministry. Meanwhile vendors are still owed $12.5 million.

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The judge in the Crystal Cathedral bankruptcy case agreed Wednesday to move forward with an exit plan that calls for the sale of the church’s Garden Grove property.

>In the next month, about 400 creditors will vote on an exit strategy.

The Boulder, Colorado house where JonBenet Ramsey’s body was discovered 14 years ago is for sale again.

The house, purchased in 2004 by Crystal Cathedral founder Robert H. Schuller’s son-in-law, Tim Milner and daughter Carol Schuller Milner, has been listed at $2.3 million.

Turns out positive thinking alone is not enough: Crystal Cathedral, the megachurch birthplace of the televangelist show “Hour of Power,” filed for bankruptcy Monday in Southern California after struggling to emerge from debt that exceeds $43 million.

Hundreds of creditors could be owed between $50 million and $100 million, according to documents filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Santa Ana on Monday.

Vendors who helped produce popular Christmas and Easter pageants at the Crystal Cathedral megachurch in Garden Grove said Thursday that they are owed tens of thousands of dollars for their work.

“They simply quit paying us,” said one vendor. “We’re all astounded by this.”