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…

NZ Herald / ZM On Line – Dove Love’s brother: ‘She didn’t want to marry him’

August 1, 2016: 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…

The Spinoff – Gloriavale: Where a woman’s place is submissive and pregnant

July 28, 2016: 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…

NZ Herald – Gloriavale: A timeline of controversy

July 27, 2016: NZ Herald – 27/07/2016 As Gloriavale returns, we take a look back at the community’s controversy over the years. July, 2007: Ex-Gloriavale members sentenced for robbery July 2014: Gloriavale hits NZ TV screens April, 2015: Ex-Members speak out against Gloriavale’s leader April, 2015: A community rich in assets … Read…

Gloriavale’s stage show is unlike anything else on Earth

July 25, 2016: | RNZ | Katie Scotcher | Every two years, the Gloriavale Christian Community welcomes 6000 people to watch a four-hour concert extravaganza. Last week Katie Scotcher and three friends went there to check out the show, Candlelight Castle, in the community’s own dining hall. We left Greymouth at nine, after a night of wine…

Gloriavale Christian Community assets top $40 million

February 29, 2016: By: Joanne Carroll – 29/02/2016 The Gloriavale Christian Community has opened up to defend its tax status as its assets reach more than $40 million. The community leaders took out a large advertisement in the Greymouth Star on Saturday after its financial statements were released online. Read more here: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/77378317/gloriavale-christian-community-assets-top-40-million…

Gloriavale, girls, and the purpose of education

October 29, 2015: | Stuff | Catherine Delahunty | This week Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty took up the invitation from the women of Gloriavale to visit and see how their community and educational opportunities work. OPINION: The welcome my colleague and I received could not have been more open and hospitable despite the…

Former Gloriavale indecent assault victim: ‘He’s no man of God’

August 31, 2015: | NZ Herald | The woman who put Gloriavale cult leader Hopeful Christian in prison says he is no man of God and labelled him a “pervert”. Yvette Olsen this month applied through the courts to have her name suppression lifted and spoke to TVNZ’s Sunday programme tonight about how…