Woman slams ‘negligent’ TV2 documentary A Woman’s Place

August 16, 2016: | NZ Herald | A woman with family ties to the controversial Gloriavale community has spoken out about a TV2 documentary she calls “exploitative and negligent”. In an opinion piece written for The Phantograph Punch, Melissa Harrison said the “irresponsibly soft” doco glossed over the problems residents and ex-residents of Gloriavale had…

Amanda Evans: When your Gloriavale reality is not mine

August 16, 2016: | NZ Herald | Amanda Evans | 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…

Gloriavale teen Prayer Ready died choking in isolation room

August 15, 2016: | NZ Herald | Nikki Preston | 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 when…

The Pantograph Punch – Gloriavale: The Other Side, From the Inside

August 15, 2016: 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…

Life after Gloriavale: Former member speaks

August 4, 2016: | 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…