Family of 11 leave Gloriavale over community’s new leadership

August 16, 2018: Newshub Reporter – 16/08/2018 (Video can be viewed in article link). A family of 11 have left Gloriavale for Timaru because of the secluded community’s new leadership. Newshub understands nine…

Director stands by show as exiled Gloriavale father claims ‘everything is vetted’

May 27, 2018: By Glenn McConnell | Stuff | A shunned member of Gloriavale​ claims TVNZ’s documentaries about life inside the Christian community only show outsiders what leaders there want them to see. But the show’s…

Obituary: Gloriavale patriarch Hopeful Christian’s troubling legacy

May 19, 2018: By Michael Wright – Stuff – 19/05/2018 Few leaders meant as much to their cause as Hopeful Christian. So it was that, when the founder and spiritual leader of the…

Our fascination with Gloriavale is all about secrets, sex and salvation

May 18, 2018: By: Martin van Beynen – 18/05/2018 (Video can be viewed in article link).  OPINION: What is it that makes regular folks so fascinated by Gloriavale, the Christian sect of about…

‘He’s going to go to hell’ says woman sexually abused by Gloriavale leader Hopeful Christian in the ’80s

May 16, 2018: | 1News | The death of controversial Gloriavale leader Hopeful Christian is drawing mixed reaction from those who knew him. While the West Coast commune mourns his loss, others have…

‘He deserved to rot in jail’ – woman who claims she suffered sexual abuse at hands of former Gloriavale leader gives emotional interview

May 16, 2018: | 1News | A woman who claimed she was sexually abused by former Gloriavale leader Hopeful Christian in the 1980s has given an emotional interview after his death, saying he…

Who was Hopeful Christian and how did he rise to notoriety at Gloriavale?

May 15, 2018: By Brad Flahive – Stuff – 15/05/2018 [Video can be viewed in article link] One of New Zealand’s most controversial figures has died after a battle with cancer, aged 92.…

Watch the first and only TV interview with Gloriavale leader Hopeful Christian, where he revealed inner-workings of secretive religious sect

May 15, 2018: | 1News | Sunday | TVNZ 1’s Sunday show carried out the only sit-down television interview with Gloriavale leader Hopeful Christian over a decade ago. Reporter Janet McIntyre was given…