A public memorial service to honor evangelist Oral Roberts, founder of Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University, who died Tuesday, has been scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21, at the Mabee Center on the campus of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa.
The evangelist’s family has invited the public to join them in honoring the life and memory of their father and grandfather.
For those not able to attend the memorial service in person, it will be Webcast live at www.goldeneagle.tv. Arrangements have been made for the public to send condolences and reflect on Oral Roberts' life online at www.oralroberts.com. Those who would rather call in may do so through the prayer line at (918) 495-7777.
Nativity angers Italian political party
The Northern League, a political party in Italy, is decrying a nativity scene on display in a Verona courthouse because it features a dark-skinned baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
According to wire reports, the Northern League has taken a strong anti-immigration stance and believes the nativity display is an act of provocation. League proposals have ranged from separate buses and trains for immigrants to banning new mosques and forbidding the serving of ethnic food.
The chief public prosecutor in Verona said he set up the display in order to include people of all ethnicities.
Survey Says
Religiously mixed marriages are common in the United States, and a recent survey finds that the link between being in a religiously mixed union and attendance at multiple types of services is a complex one.
Overall, people in religiously mixed marriages attend worship services less often than people married to someone of the same faith. But among those who attend religious services at least yearly, those in religiously mixed marriages attend multiple types of services at a higher rate than people married to someone of the same religion.
-- Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Good Book?
“The True Story of Saint Nicholas” by Rebecca Benson Haskell
Santa Claus is real. His name comes from the Dutch colloquial "Sinterklaas," a short way of saying Sint Nicolaas.
This book, ideal for under the Christmas tree, is the result of the effort of a great-grandmother from Marblehead, Mass., to tell her family about the real Santa Claus, a Christian saint born around 260 AD, known to us as St. Nicholas.
His way of giving anonymously became the foundation for today's Christmas Eve visitor, filling the stockings of expectant children. Haskell felt it was important for her family to understand the real person behind today's distorted conception.
