From a profile of Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen by Karl Taro Greenfeld in next month’s Portfolio magazine:
The Osteens, like so many American families during the recent real estate boom, spent the better part of the past decade buying, renovating, and selling homes, and became so proficient in the process that Osteen and his wife were able to skip hiring a contractor for their last renovation and go directly to the subcontractors to complete their mansion. Coming off the boom, during which the average American dwelling doubled in size, the Osteens’ digs are more modest than one might guess. The house is decorated in a rococo style that Victoria has called “French” and Osteen calls “fancy.”
- God Wants Me to Be Rich [Portfolio, via Houston’s Clear Thinkers]
- Previously in Swamplot: Joel Osteen Townhome Sales Technique: Give and Ye Shall Receive Full Asking Price and Joel Osteen, Deed Restrictions, and the House Flip from Heaven
Photo of Joel and Victoria Osteen at home: Randal Ford, Portfolio
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I call it “confirmed bachelor.”
Tacky is what I would call it. These people make me ill.
Bleah! What are they trying to do, re-create the Garden of Eden? If so, the tiger-skin chair is a no-no.
At least with all that pattern and stuff everywhere, no dirt will ever show. Cleanliness is next to Godliness and all that.
Hideous. Pastor Joel? It’s very Tammy Faye, rest her soul and bless her heart. And Pastor Joel looks like a woman in this photo. A woman who likes way too much stuff, and too many animal prints.
These two are the worst thing since Jim and Tammy Faye - he looks like some poor unattractive woman who had a cheap sex change job and she looks like a $200 an hour - well you know. Wonder if these two have had any luck spawning offspring - God forbid they should get cloned!