Courtney Copeland Acuña, granddaughter of Kenneth Copeland and chief marketing officer for Kenneth Copeland Ministries (KCM), said it was an “easy yes” when Bryce Crawford’s team requested an interview.
While speaking with Shawn Paul Wood, Acuña explained why it had been years since her grandfather’s last interview.
“My grandfather has never enjoyed interviews. He’s not great at them as people can see from the ‘Inside Edition’ interviewer when he’s been stopped. He’s not really been great at apologetics,” she said. “It’s not a gift that he has. And so his whole stance for the last two, three decades has been, ‘I’m just going to let my message and my word speak for itself.’”
“It was an easy yes at first,” she said.
“I thought it went really well. Bryce was so sweet to my grandfather. He was so respectful and kind,” she added. “They actually sat down and talked for three hours. My grandfather just told story after story, and Bryce was so patient and just had so much respect for him, which I appreciated.”
Acuña said she wishes her grandfather did more interviews, noting they reveal a side of him many people rarely see.
“I know Bryce doesn’t agree necessarily on everything that my grandfather said. That was like his point of doing the interviews. He wanted to challenge my grandfather on the prosperity gospel,” she said.
She continued:
But I think it went really well, and it actually made me wish that maybe my grandfather did do interviews more often because I feel like you see a side of him—the side that I get to see—which is that he just really cares, and the way that he is in the interview is how he conducts himself in real life.
Acuña said that despite theological differences, she believes Crawford, her grandfather, and she share the same core message of faith.
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