: | Stuff | Damien Grant is an Auckland business owner and a regular opinion contributor for Stuff, writing from a libertarian perspective. OPINION: I’ve been thinking about banks recently. Well. Bankers, more precisely. In my profession, I often encounter them in their natural habitat. A remarkably timid breed of failed accountants and nervous…
: | The Press |Joanne Naish | Members of the Gloriavale Christian Community signed a commitment against corporal punishment eight years after it became illegal in New Zealand. The move was revealed in a New Zealand Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal decision about a teacher who hit children with a ruler and hoped…
: | The Press | Joanne Naish | A former Gloriavale teacher who hit pupils with a ruler believes the school is still not safe for children. Victory Disciple was found guilty of serious misconduct but not censured or ordered to pay costs after the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal found it had…
: | RNZ | Anna Sargent | A young Gloriavale man who was found unresponsive in the Christian community’s paint shop had spoken to his workmates only 20 minutes earlier, an inquest has heard. Sincere Standtrue died at Christchurch Hospital, 10 days later. An inquest is being held to determine the…
: | RNZ | Anna Sargent | An inquest has heard of desperate efforts to save a young Gloriavale man who was found unresponsive in the Christian community’s paint shop in 2018. Sincere Standtrue died at Christchurch Hospital 10 days later. An inquest is being held in Greymouth to determine the…
: | Greymouth Star | Laura Mills |Subscription Only Education specialists have been working with Gloriavale School, with a fresh review due. The school needs to pass the review in order to keep its funding. The Education Review Office visited last October and found the private school was not providing an…
: | RNZ | Anna Sargent | A former Gloriavale member has told the inquest into the death of a young member in 2018 that the 20-year-old was miserable at the Christian community. Sincere Standtrue died at Christchurch Hospital 10 days after he was found unresponsive at Gloriavale’s paint shop, where…
: | Christianity Today | Isabel Ong | Survivors, advocates, and pastors call for “true repentance” among religious groups that ran schools and homes between 1950 and 1999. Over the next few years, Tagaloa began piecing together long-buried memories and came to recognize that she had been sexually abused between the ages of…
: | Rova | Duncan Garner | From Centrepoint to Gloriavale, some of our most notorious cults will be in the spotlight at ‘Decult’ – Australasia’s first cult awareness conference. It is taking place in Christchurch later this year – the brainchild of investigative journalist and author Anke Richter. Experts and…
: | RNZ | Anna Sargent | Warning: This story discusses suicide. The brother of a Gloriavale man who died in 2018 has told an inquest he was not aware of his brother being badly bullied at the Christian community. Sincere Standtrue died at Christchurch Hospital, 10 days after he was…