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TV Evangelist Robert Schuller Dies At 88

The Associated Press | by Amy Taxin & Gillian Flaccus

Schuller’s evangelical Protestant ministry was a product of modern technology. Schuller began broadcasting the Hour of Power in 1970. In 1980, he built the towering glass-and-steel Crystal Cathedral to house his booming TV ministry, which was broadcast live each week from the cathedral’s airy and sunlit 2,800-seat sanctuary. At its peak, in the 1990s, the program had 20 million viewers in about 180 countries.