Live Stream with Carlton Pearson - Politics

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Is Trump the last trump of the Lord? Say what? Donald Trump and Sara Palin packed the Mabee Ctr on the campus of the Oral Roberts University just yesterday, Jan 20th. Thousands of evangelical Christians along with dozens of pastors flooded the ten thousand seat arena, many proudly posting their pictures with the candidate on FB, Instagram and other social media outlets. You can possibly imagine my thoughts as an Inclusionist and my connection to ORU, Oral Roberts and the great Azusa conferences I hosted in that same venue, Oral liked to call the Magnificent Mabee Center. Interestingly enough, most of those people, including most of the ORU students, faculty and staff, have no idea that Oral Roberts voted for Obama and was more of a progressive than some dare to admit or believe. Trump quotes "Two" Corinthians at Liberty University, a kind of rival to our ORU, also a learning institution associated with the evangelical fundamentalist Christian (not necessarily spiritual) community. It was often that he doesn't read the NT often, or perhaps haven't been around a lot of bible studies etc. Trump included Sara Palin purportedly to attract the evangelicals away from Senator Cruz to his camp. So far it seems to be working, even though Sara, a Charismatic tongue talking Fundamentalist Christian, stated publicly that our American forces under Trumps leadership would "kick ISIS's ass" to rousing applause. Of course that is language not permissible on the ORU campus in normal settings, but apparently ok for Ms Palin, not to mention her daughter getting pregnant twice outside the bonds of marriage and her son, present yesterday admittedly guilty of spousal abuse. Carlton Pearson After college at the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa Oklahoma he served for 15 years on its Board of Regents, and two years as Associate Evangelist of The Oral Roberts Association, (ORA). In 1977, Pearson founded Higher Dimensions Ministries (now New Dimensions ), in Tulsa, which grew to over 5,000. Bishop Pearson was consecrated to the office of Bishop in 1996 thru a College of Bishops headed by Bishop Charles E Blake, presently the Presiding Bishop of the Churches of God In Christ, the denomination he was raised in and through whom he was ordained in 1971. In 1993, Carlton married the former Gina Marie Gauthier who is a professional Life Coach and Yoga teacher. More recently, he has felt a passion to proclaim the "Gospel Of Inclusion" and has written a widely acclaimed book by that name, published by Simon and Schuster. It confronts the Christian church's exclusivism as being inconsistent, in spirit with the teachings of Jesus. Pearson's frank and often controversial take on a number of different subjects has earned him appearances on television programs such as NBC and MSNBC's Dateline, ABC's Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley, The Edge with Paula Zahn and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, The Monique Show on BET, and a number of other television, radio and print media outlets. Bishop Pearson was recognized as one of America's 10 Most Influential Black Ministers by Gospel Today and Belief.net. He has received several honorary doctoral degrees. Bishop Pearson recently served as the Interim Senior Minister at Christ Universal Temple in Chicago. He and Gina now host New Dimensions of Chicago, building a local multi-cultural and radically Inclusive spiritual community that emphasizes expanded consciousness and Self Actualization. His newest book, God Is Not A Christian, Nor A Jew, Muslim, Hindu...God Dwells With Us, In Us, Around Us, As Us was published by Simon and Schuster and released in the spring of 2010. Visit our Youtube Channel for more video! Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/bishoppearson Website: http://www.bishoppearson.com Join Email List: http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?llr=cqgwpvn6&p=oi&m=1011112155650

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