#trinity-broadcasting-network

#trinity-broadcasting-network

In 2004, the men of the inner circle watched in approval as twenty-year-old Brittany Crouch chugged expensive wine from an oversized glass. Around them, the crowd buzzed at Del Frisco's, the white-tablecloth steakhouse in midtown Manhattan populated by Wall Street guys wearing expensive suits and tourists spending a few hundred dollars pretheater. Brittany's rite of passagenot dissimilar to a fraternity hazingwas supervised by her grandfather, Paul Crouch Sr. (known to all as the Godfather), his handlers, and numerous powerful officials of Trinity Christian Center, the sprawling evangelical church they presided over.