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God Doesn't Look At Skin Color, Oral Roberts

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This is a transcript of the September 26, 1989 chapel service held on the campus of Oral Roberts University in which Oral Roberts delivered a message entitled, "God Doesn't Look at Skin Color."

Roberts shares that when the university opened, a member of the federal government called him to ask about his racial policy. He replied, "ORU is established in three ways, first, to be international. Second, to be interdenominational, and third to be interracial."

Chapel Transcript: February 22, 1974 - "Blackness And Christianity" Bishop G.O. Patterson, Holy Spirit Research Center, Oral Roberts University

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This is a transcript of a chapel service from February 22, 1974 on the campus of Oral Roberts University. The guest speaker is Bishop G.O. Patterson of the Churches of God Christ, the largest Pentecostal denomination in North America. Also in attendance is Bishop Charles E. Blake, presiding bishop of California. Oral Roberts invited Bishop Patterson in honor of "Negro History Week".

Bishop Patterson's topic was "blackness and Christianity." He discusses the idea that Christianity is not a "white man's religion" as some in his day were saying. He traces the historic roots of Christianity into Africa, through Church history …

Chapel Transcript: February 20, 1974 - Bob Goodwin Black Heritage Week, Holy Spirit Research Center, Oral Roberts University

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This is chapel transcript from "Black Awareness Week" held on February 20, 1974 on the campus of Oral Roberts University. The Speaker is Robert (Bob) Goodwin. Goodwin was born in Tulsa and a graduate of Oral Roberts University. Goodwin was the editor of his father''s newspaper, the Oklahoma Eagle, an African American newspaper in Tulsa. He also worked in the President George H.W. Bush administration.