Hail to thee, alma mater

I have distanced myself from televangelism, but it helped pay for my college education

John I. Carney
8 min readMar 21, 2021

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Oral Roberts and me, spring 1983.

Sometimes, in blog entries or social media posts, I will refer to my alma mater as Famous Televangelist University. It’s a tongue-in-cheek, but maybe cowardly, way of distancing myself from stereotypes.

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John I. Carney

Author of “Dislike: Faith and Dialogue in the Age of Social Media,” available at http://www.lakeneuron.com/dislike