Oral Roberts' president resigns after allegedly misappropriating funds

As I've become apt to do, here's another story on scandal from the bottom line of The Church Business. (Editor's Note: Keep your eyes peeled, there may be a Pasty Quail subsidiary blog in the new year covering The Church Business exclusively)

This time, the president of one of the United States' most well-known Christian universities, Oral Roberts in Tulsa, Okla., resigned over the holiday weekend due to "a series of allegations of misspending the institution’s funds to support expensive shopping trips and trips to the sunny seas of the Caribbean."

My new friends at GetReligion do a pretty good job of breaking this down, so I'll leave you to them. However, their closing to the article brought up a point that I've hit on before, and that I'll mention again:

"A huge question that remains largely unanswered is how this scandal was affected by the Roberts family’s emphasis on prosperity theology."

In other words, continuing situations of Christian embezzlement poke a nasty thorn into the side of a theology that says God favors the wealthy and that monetary gain reflects spiritual health. What happens when the "wealth" many parishioners (or students) perceive in their spiritual superiors is a farce? And how much pressure do these superiors feel to appear most wealthy, and thus most godly?