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Articles, Cults and Sects, Legal: Girls' Employment Case

Gloriavale’s last stand

August 30, 2022: By Dr Liz Gordon |Insight Aotearoa | Blog It is difficult to fathom the arguments being made in court about the ‘Gloriavale six’ – six women who revealed that women at Gloriavale were expected to do women’s work from a young age and, as adults, for around 90 hours per…

Cults and Sects, Videos

Unconditional Love – Zion’s Gloriavale story (Extended version)

April 15, 2022: Hope Project Video Link: Unconditional Love – Zion’s Gloriavale story …

Articles, Audio, Cults and Sects

Janja Lalich: how normal people end up in cults like NXIVM

February 27, 2021: Saturday Morning | RNZ | It’s a myth that only “stupid weird crazy people” get tied up with cults, says cult expert Dr Janja Lalich. Idealism is what these people have in common, she tells Kim Hill. Dr Lalich knows from experience. In the ’70s and ’80s, she herself was a…

Articles, Cults and Sects

How To Spot A Cult and Avoid Getting Recruited!

December 5, 2019: | DangerTV | YouTube | Gloriavale Chapter commences at 14:18 Watch this full length documentary on Cults and how to spot when you’re being recruited for a cult. These experts dissect all the myths and legends around cults and how you can avoid getting sucked into one.…

Articles, Cults and Sects

A Story of Redemption

December 15, 2016: | Laidlaw College | “I grew up in Gloriavale” is a dramatic opening line to Leah Menage’s story! Crossing the stage recently to receive her Bachelor of Counselling degree, Leah’s story is one of redemption and hope. Her mother was left to raise six children after Leah’s father died of…

Cults and Sects, Videos

Narcissism and the Systems It Breeds – Diane Langberg

May 6, 2016: Diane Langberg | FOCLOnline | Narcissists can be charming and draw individuals and whole systems in. They often damage others, particularly those who are less powerful. In this talk, we discuss the diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality disorder, how a narcissistic leader can impact and shape a system, and some ways…

Articles, Cults and Sects

Gloriavale religious commune: ‘No one is here against their will’

March 12, 2015: | The New Zealand Herald | Kurt Bayer | Gloriavale Christian Community has responded to accusations by a family that walked out at the weekend claiming they were living in a “false system”, by saying that “no one is here against their will”. James and Hope Ben Canaan and their…

Articles, Cults and Sects, Daily Vale

Shops pressured to remove cult book

April 24, 2009: | Otago Daily Times | Members of a religious cult on the West Coast appear to have pressured at least one local store into pulling a book from their shelves that argues their leader is a manipulative sexual deviant. The book, Sins of the Father, tells the story of Phil Cooper…

Gloriavale’s last stand

Unconditional Love – Zion’s Gloriavale story (Extended version)

Janja Lalich: how normal people end up in cults like NXIVM

How To Spot A Cult and Avoid Getting Recruited!

A Story of Redemption

Narcissism and the Systems It Breeds – Diane Langberg

Gloriavale religious commune: ‘No one is here against their will’

Shops pressured to remove cult book

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