Tag: 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.

The problem-plagued Crystal Cathedral has endorsed selling its sprawling campus to a university as part of a bankruptcy reorganization plan.

Under the plan, the church would be able to continue to use a number of buildings on the Garden Grove campus and possibly repurchase them at a later date.

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.

Family discord and financial shortfalls have plagued the opulent but bankrupt Crystal Cathedral, an operation some see as outdated.

Bobby Schuller — the founder’s grandson — has established his own, more intimate church, seeking to evolve with the times.

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.”

A man shot himself in the head Wednesday morning at the altar of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove and died at the scene, police said.

Church ushers said that a middle-aged man entered the church, saying he wanted to pray. The unidentified man walked up three steps to the altar area, knelt before a gold cross and put the gun to his head, said John Charles, director of public relations for the church.

The Rev. Robert A. Schuller, ousted in October as the preacher of the long-running Christian television program “Hour of Power,” has resigned as senior pastor at the Crystal Cathedral and plans to open his own ministry.

Church founder Robert H. Schuller removed his son as the sole preacher on the 39-year-old television show after the younger Schuller, three years into the job, refused to rotate his role with other pastors, the church said.