Ashes to Gold

Ashes to Gold

Infobox_Book


author = Sherry Andrews and Patti Roberts
name = Ashes to Gold
country = United States
language = English
subject = Religion/Biography
genre =
publisher = Jove
release_date = 1983, April 15, 1987
media_type = Hardcover/Paperback
isbn = ISBN 0515089761

Ashes to Gold is a book by Sherry Andrews and Patti Roberts, former wife of Richard Roberts, and daughter in law of faith healer Oral Roberts. The offers a critical assessment of the Roberts' ministry and university. [cite news | url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=4689 | title=Giving God a Hand | publisher=New York Review of Books |date=1987-08-13 | first=Martin | last=Gardener | accessdate = 2007-10-28] In a 1987 review Martin Gardner concluded Patti left Richard because of "her distress in watching Richard turn into a clone of Oral, and shameless way that she and Richard rationalized their jet-set way of life." [cite news | url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=4689 | title=Giving God a Hand | publisher=New York Review of Books |date=1987-08-13 | first=Martin | last=Gardener | accessdate = 2007-10-28] Patti's "painful memoir" is cited as a scholarly source on Roberts and his ministry." [cite news | url=http://www.links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4642(198702)53%3A1%3C134%3AORAAL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-% | title=Review of "Oral Roberts: An American Life" | publisher=The Journal of Southern History |date=February 1987 | first=William | last=Martin | accessdate = 2007-10-28] The book has been reportedly banned from Oral Roberts University.Fact|date=October 2007

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