: An anonymous reflection from a Gloriavale Leaver (male), following the Employment Court case: https://www.gloriavaleleavers.org.nz/portfolio/anonymous-religious-duress/…
: Happy First Freedom Day!!! Meet the Disciple family. Dad, Faithful, wrote this on his FB wall, “One year ago my wife and I made the difficult and desperate decision to take our family out of Gloriavale for a 3-day break. Our lives will never be the same again.” Faithful was…
: Leavers have been reflecting on their own experiences of living and working in Gloriavale, since the Employment Court Case is a hot topic at present. Here are Ezra Hope’s reflections: https://www.gloriavaleleavers.org.nz/portfolio/ezra-coercive-control-work/…
: It’s timely to reflect on those women we know who are in Gloriavale and who are not able to have a voice. We think about those women who have not been able to truly and freely choose who they marry, what school their children attend, what job they do, and…
: Opinion Piece by Liz Gregory Gloriavale and the Govt and some ex-members of Gloriavale will be heading to the Employment Court later this month, to establish whether 3 young men were employees or volunteers. Lots of leavers have been ringing in discussing the case and the concepts that will likely…
: | Dominion Post | Emma Cook | Digital cartoon by Emma Cook on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Cartoon depicts a memorial gravestone for “A fair impartial independent investigation into abuse claims at Gloriavale”. Refers to news that the Board of Trustees of the Christian Church…
: Today we finally launched our new website, just in time to allow people to start signing up to go to our Upcoming Events! There’s still plenty of content to add, but we’ll keep chipping away at it over the next few months.…
: | 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…