A Southern California monument to the successes and excesses of televangelism was torn down last week.
The iconic former headquarters of Trinity Broadcasting Network, in Costa Mesa, Calif., was demolished after standing vacant for several years.
Construction workers with backhoes knocked down the palatial, 65,6500-square-foot building — with curving golden staircases, marble and mirror surfaces and floor-to-ceiling murals of biblical characters and angels — to make way for 142 new homes…