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Walking by Flags on a Foggy Evening
Fog seldom slithers its way into Tulsa. Not real fog. Especially not the smoke-laced fog we had growing up in western Pennsylvania. The kind...
Taking His Healing Power to the World
The children sang joyfully amidst the trees, grateful to be safe from Boko Haram. They sang in Hausa, the language of the North, but they...
With Eyes Fixed on Him
April 1983. My local church was hosting four ORU students on a Lay Witness mission. They were so different—in a way that was undeniably...
A Call For Alumni Prayer
God has always called His people to pray. Prayer moves and empowers God’s work on the earth. Last summer, ORU alumni and students saw...
Making Media That Matters
When Phil Cooke ’76 first came to ORU, he was a piano major and had no idea it was possible to make a career...
Distinguished Service “In Every Person’s World”
For 2014 Alumnus of the Year Amick Byram (’77), going “into every person’s world” has meant using his considerable God-given talents to impact those...
Remembering Dr. Myles Munroe
November 9, Oral Roberts University graduate Dr. Myles Munroe (’78) went home to be with the Lord.
Munroe, founder and president of Bahamas Faith Ministries...
Alumni enjoy double portion of Homecoming in 2014
Moving Homecoming from winter to fall was an idea whose time had come. The question was how to avoid a large gap between the...
There’s No Place Like Home
My older brother Gary and I made the 90-degree left turn off what was then a narrow two-lane Lewis Avenue. In our 1952 cream...
Sustaining ‘The House of Bread’
The word Bethlehem is translated “House of Bread.” Yet, in this city of more than 25,000, there are people starving spiritually—men, women and children...
