article_snippet.sent: The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, the Southern California televangelist and author who beamed his upbeat messages on faith and redemption to millions from his landmark Crystal Cathedral only to see his empire crumble in his waning years, has died.
article_snippet.sent: The Rev. Robert H. Schullerdied early Thursday in California at the age of 88 .
article_snippet.sent: The Rev. Robert H. Schuller's evangelical Protestant ministry, part of the Reformed Church in America, was a product of modern technology.
article_snippet.sent: The Reverend Robert Schuller (seen in 1980)
article_snippet.sent: In 2006, Schuller's only son, 51-year-old Robert A. Schuller, was installed as senior pastor, the start of a carefully choreographed leadership transition.
article_snippet.sent: Although a father-son succession is rare in the Reformed Church in America, the Schullers considered the church a 'family business' and the move was sanctioned by the national church, officials said.
article_snippet.sent: his grandson, Bobby Schuller, who pastors his own church that includes some of his grandfather's former congregants, took his Orange County congregation and founded a new church.
article_snippet.sent: The Rev. Robert H. Schuller was born in Alton, Iowa, in 1926, and was ordained by the Reformed Church in America America in 1950.
article_snippet.sent: The Rev. Robert H. Schuller was pastor of Ivanhoe Reformed Church in Chicago from 1950 to 1955 before moving to California.