I just googled Robert Schuller’s son and discovered we look-alike. We have long faces and similar eyebrows. Marilyn’s older sister, Shauna, was engaged to Robert Anthony Schuller, but, he broke off the engagement. It is believed Schuller Senior was prejudiced because Shauna is half Filipino. After this rejection Shauna became radicalized, dated Ron Jefferson, Les MacCann’s drummer. She then ended up in France with very radical friends. She co-authored the biography of Fela with her lover, Carlos Moore, that became a off-Broadway hit.
I just talked to Marilyn, and she said Shauna’s fiancé’s was forbidden to marry a “brown-skinned” woman as M put it. Robert used to spend the night with Shauna on the living room floor. She assured me there was no subconscious or conscious connection. She told me she was glad the Schuller family power has come to an end, and the Catholics took over their church.
“Their rejection of Shauna led her to get involved in the Black Movement, so, in a way it was a good thing.” M declares, not fully realizing the cultural significance that looms large this very day. The Religious-right and their political party loathes President Obama, and employ their version of Jesus to demonize a man who sixty million people voted for.
Marilyn recalled the long talks we had at the Mormon temple at night, and wished we could be hypnotized so we could recall and record them. I told her we gave birth to the alternative Jesus and Mary Magdalene cosmology, especially after her mother found her copy of ‘The Last Temptation of Jesus Christ.’
Marilyn recently told me the reason her mother took me to three Billy Graham Crusades, is because she wanted me to be saved – because she was living in sin. Teddy, her Filipino lover would spend the night several times a week, and then go home to his Catholic wife. Teddy secretly became a Baptist. Marie’s minister hated Catholics. I know this because I was allowed to stay over Saturday night – if I went to church the next day. Marie was convinced Marilyn and I were screwing. The truth is we were dry-screwing, which was better than intercourse because Marilyn had a great orgasm every time, that were electrical and colorful-filled. We were deeply in love! However, I felt there was a hidden agenda.
Marilyn was strongly influenced by Shauna. We created Little France in West LA. But, here is the kicker, I would take Marilyn up to the Mormon Temple and preach to her about Beauty, Art, and spirituality. We were both amazed where my words came from. I began to own a Christ-complex. These were the best moments of my life. I had it all. I was inspired. I was – in the spirit – even though I rejected organized religion. That the Catholic church now owns the Crystal cathedral, is profound, as is I becoming a theologian. Now add to this my sister’s affair with Daniel.
The photograph of Marilyn holding the hand of Daddy Pete, Shauna’s father, is one of the most beautiful images I have ever seen.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2015
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Schuller
Robert Anthony Schuller (born October 7, 1954) is an American televangelist, author, and television executive. He was formerly a minister on the Hour of Power weekly television program broadcast from the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County, California, where he was named senior pastor in 2006.[1][2]
An ordained minister, Schuller is the only son of Crystal Cathedral founders Robert H. Schuller and Arvella Schuller. He is the best-selling author of Getting Through the going Through Stage, Dump Your Hang Up’s, Possibility Living and the New York Times best seller Walking in Your Own Shoes. He was the senior pastor of the Hour of Power and the Crystal Cathedral for nearly three years, from January 2006 to November 2008. According to the Hour of Power website, he resigned as senior pastor on November 29, 2008. He continues his ministry with Robert Schuller Ministries and is also chairman of Comstar Media Fund, a media investment company, and the Coalition for American Renewal.
Hour of Power is a weekly American Christian television program formerly broadcast from the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.
The program was founded and first hosted by Robert H. Schuller. It is currently hosted by Bobby Schuller, who is Robert H. Schuller’s grandson and the son of Robert A. Schuller, himself a former host. It has also been hosted by Sheila Schuller Coleman, a daughter of Robert H. Schuller.
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(CNA/EWTN News) – “Through this innovative design process an insightful plan has emerged that will establish Christ Cathedral as a place for involvement in the sacraments, a place to hear the Word of God proclaimed and a place for personal prayer and devotion,” Bishop Kevin Vann of Orange said Sept. 24. “It will be a holy place, where God dwells among us.”
The Diocese of Orange purchased the Crystal Cathedral in February of 2012 from the Protestant community which founded it. The building and its campus was sold after the community filed for bankruptcy in October 2010 when some of its creditors sued for payment.
The church’s longtime minister, Robert Schuller, had approved the original designs for the church building and gave it the name Crystal Cathedral in the late 1970s.
The building is 120 feet tall, 141 feet long and 207 feet wide, covering an area of 78,397 square feet. It is made entirely of glass and steel. The cathedral will have a seating capacity of over 2,000.
The new design aims to support the centrality of the Eucharist, to provide a “solemn and prayerful experience,” and to meet the needs of a 10,000-member parish, the diocese said in a statement.
The altar’s central placement was designed taking into account Catholic liturgy, the massive space, and the presence of the Hazel Wright Organ, the fourth largest church organ in the world. The altar’s design is part of an “antiphonal” layout, with the altar placed at the building’s center.
One altar design photo shows a large crucifix suspended from the ceiling above the altar.
Monsignor Christopher Smith, Christ Cathedral’s rector, noted the ancient Christian image of the “porta coeli,” Latin for the “gateway to heaven.”
“A cathedral, such as the Christ Cathedral when completed, lifts the mind, heart and soul of believers – and perhaps even others – to the love of God and the hope that God has promised,” he said.
He said the design plan aims to build “a deeper unity of purpose and mission among Catholics within our local Church” in addition to “a renewed commitment to permeating the world with the love of Christ.”
The first phase of the project will concern the cathedral itself, its courtyard, and a reflection garden that will house the campus’ existing statuary and the bronze replicas of the 1,800 “Walk of Faith” stones currently on the campus.
The project’s second phase includes the expansion of the cathedral’s lower level, the expansion of the cathedral’s cemetery, and the redesign of the rest of the campus grounds.
The first phase is being undertaken with $29 million from the $100 million capital campaign. More funding is being raised to complete the project.
The structure’s fa�ade of more than 10,000 panes of mirrored glass posed challenges involving heat transfer, excess light, and acoustics. In response, the design team has designed “petals” to cover each piece of glass. The petals will open to control light and heat transfer as well as acoustics.
Bishop Vann thanked the diocese architectural and renovations committee and the architectural firms that worked on the plans. He said the design plan respects Schuller’s “faithful witness and architectural legacy” while creating “a contemplative and prayerful space that embodies the solemnity and reverence of the Catholic tradition.”
The diocese retained the architectural firm Johnson Fain to focus on the cathedral itself, while Rios Clementi Hale Studios was retained to focus on the cathedral’s 34-acre surrounding campus, which will be used as a center for evangelization, arts and culture, interreligious dialogue and outreach to the poor.
When it was announced one year ago that Johnson Fain had been selected to renovate the cathedral, Scott Johnson, the firm’s design partner, explained to CNA that his strategy would be “essentially to conserve and restore the exterior” of the cathedral and that “the new architecture will really be in the refashioning of the operational aspects and the interior elements of the shell.”
The cathedral will reopen after renovations and a formal dedication scheduled for 2017.
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