They may need a miracle on Saturday when they play third-seeded Arkansas in the round of 16 at the 2021 NCAA basketball tournament. Here is Baylor University sports historian Paul Putz and Oral Roberts biographer Jonathan Root at Christianity Today:...
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Did the late Oral Roberts prophesy a Final Four appearance for the Oral Roberts University basketball team?
Here is the Pentecostal televangelist back in February 1987 “. . .I will see you in heaven. But I believe that won’t happen, because I believe our God will do this mighty thing and at the end of March, you...
The head basketball coach at Oral Roberts University is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary
This falls into your obscure NCAA tournament facts category. Paul Mills, the head coach of the Oral Roberts University basketball team, completed a masters degree in biblical and theological studies from Dallas Theological Seminary in the summer of 2020. (The program...
David Edwin Harrell, historian of Pentecostalism, has died
Most American historians know Harrell for his biographies of Oral Roberts and Pat Robertson. Here is an obituary of the longtime Auburn University professor: Retired Auburn University history professor David Edwin Harrell, who wrote biographies of TV evangelists Pat Robertson...