Gloriavale sells parrot on Trade Me

May 1, 2015: | Paul Ekers | National Library |Depicts journalist John Campbell and a parrot. Refers to news that the Christian community Gloriavale was selling a parrot on auction website Trademe. Campbell’s…

Dissension in Gloriavale

May 1, 2015: | NZ Herald | Guy Body | Cartoon…

‘Happy, simple’ life at Gloriavale – sociologist: NZ Herald

April 24, 2015: | NZ Herald | Patrice Dougan | Sociologist who visited Christian community saw people treated well and no evidence of subjugation. A sociologist has given a rare glimpse of what…

No debate on Gloriavale road closure

April 23, 2015: | NZ Herald | Nicholas McBride | The Grey District Council has refused to enter into a public debate about a plan to close a road near the Gloriavale Christian…

The finances of Gloriavale: $36.6m in assets

April 23, 2015: | NZ Herald | Sophie Ryan | Secretive religious community’s profit for year to last July more than $1.86m but it’s a tax-exempt charity. The secretive Gloriavale religious community owns…

NZ Herald – Gloriavale: Woman pleads for family to leave

April 22, 2015: By Parice Dougan, Nicholas McBride – NZ Herald – 22/04/2015 Join me on the outside, the world’s not the evil place you imagine, says former member of community. A young…

NZ Herald – Gloriavale leaders close in as members talk of leaving

April 22, 2015: NZ Herald – 22/04/2015 A professor who says Gloriavale tried converting him as a boy says the secretive community is feeling “tremors” after the well-publicised departure of several members in…

NZ Herald – Ex-Gloriavale member was victim of ‘wrong relationship’

April 22, 2015: By Patrice Dougan – NZ Herald – 22/04/2015 A young woman who left the secretive Gloriavale Christian Community says she was the victim of a “wrong relationship” with an adult…