Son says sibling rivalry fueled cathedral troubles

As the Crystal Cathedral tries to find its footing without any
members of founder Robert H. Schuller's family at the helm, the only son
and onetime successor says "sibling rivalry" played a key role in the
California megachurch's decline.

"They didn't want to be
accountable to me, their brother," said Robert A. Schuller, the church's
former senior pastor, of his sisters and brothers-in-law, some of whom
were board members and ministry staffers.

Chalking it up to
sibling rivalry in an interview March 19, Robert A. Schuller, 57, said,
"They took steps into their own hands to make sure that they had job
security." He said his siblings took advantage of his father's signs of
dementia and halted the younger Schuller's 2006 succession to his
father's ministry within two years. He left the gleaming megachurch in
2008.