Kelly Kerr, The Tulsa World, October 22, 2007
Oral Roberts came to his namesake university for the first time in three years on Monday and told students and employees in a chapel service “the devil is not going to steal ORU.”
He said all allegations made in a lawsuit and an attached report are false. And he said Richard Roberts, who took a leave of absence as the school’s president last week, eventually will return to his position.
Oral Roberts also said he has moved back to Tulsa. The crowd gave him multiple standing ovations during the chapel service.
He said the university will begin mediation this week with the three former professors who sued them for allegedly wrongfully terminating them or forcing them to resign.
In the meantime, Oral Roberts said he is serving as co-interim president with Victory Christian Center pastor and ORU alumnus Billy Joe Daugherty.
The devil may or maynot come and steal ORU,
afterall He may give a good Goddamn.
What I want to know is,When is God going to come
and collect His eight million off this Fakir?
Comment by Rainlander — October 23, 2007 @ 12:26 am
I’d like to see, live on Cable TV, the Devil himself sweep up old Oral under his cape and disappear in a cloud of dark smoke. Then the cathedral would suddenly fill with large, black bats and send the congregation screaming out into the night. There in the parking lot, hell’s army of armadillos will be waiting to gobble them alive.
Comment by Chris Weagel — October 23, 2007 @ 11:10 am