: RNZ A director with unprecedented access to the isolated West Coast community Gloriavale tells Wallace Chapman about the “magic and brilliant” place that’s more progressive than most people think. Amanda Evans and her husband have won the trust of Gloriavale over the years. With that trust has come access, which has enabled…
: By: Amanda Evans 16/08/2016 Amanda Evans has directed and produced three top-rating Gloriavale documentaries for TVNZ. Here she responds to criticism from one former resident of the South Island religious community that the documentaries don’t dig deep enough. Having read Melissa Harrison’s criticism of Gloriavale – A Woman’s Place, it’s…
: By Nikki Preston – NZ Herald – 15/08/2016 A 14-year-old girl with Down syndrome died choking on a piece of meat in Gloriavale Christian Community while shut in an isolation room. Prayer Ready was in an isolation room with the door handles disabled to prevent people getting in and out…
: By Melissa Harrison – The Pantograph Punch – 15/08/2016 Melissa Harrison writes on the irresponsibly soft treatment TV has afforded to the South Island cult her family escaped. I can recall various junctures throughout my life when a flurry of Gloriavale documentaries and articles would be splattered across our TV…
: By: Paula Penfold and Eugene Bingham – 15/08/2016 (Video can be viewed in article link). How has a reclusive Christian community managed to cover up the death of a child, in concerning circumstances, for more than a year? And why? The Circuit team investigates. We’ve never met Sharon Ready, or…
: | Stuff | Tess Brunton | Gloriavale would “fall to pieces” if its members knew the truth about their leader Hopeful Christian and his sexual convictions, a former member says. Seventeen months after leaving the controversial West Coast Christian community, South Canterbury dairy farmer James Ben Canaan gave his first face-to-face…
: NZ Herald – 01/08/2016 A man claiming to be the brother of Gloriavale resident Dove Love has spoken out against the “cult” community saying his sister did not want to marry but its leaders made her. The wedding of Dove Love to fellow community member Watchful Steadfast was the focus…
: By Callum Henderson – The Spinoff – 28/07/2016 Calum Henderson asks why our taxpayer money continues to fund rose-tinted documentaries about the sexist hellhole known as Gloriavale. Our annual visit to Gloriavale is becoming a weird New Zealand television tradition. Every winter for the past three years we’ve been offered…
