Beauty and the Crystal Cathedral

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…