Day 11 of the Houston trial. “If life could be played twice, would you do the same thing again?” defence barrister Phillip Bouten SC asked Brian Houston on trial for not reporting his father Frank Houston’s crimes to the police.… Continue Reading
From Release International The bodies of a Ukrainian Evangelical church leader and his 19-year-old son have been discovered in a forest. They had been tortured and killed, four days after being abducted by Russian soldiers. According to the Kharkiv Human… Continue Reading
A video of a confession by an evangelical minister confessing to being a bully, a response from another minister who has counselled him to come clean and one of the elders who accepted his resignation has been shared on some… Continue Reading
Day 10 of the Houston Trial Beginning the defence case, Brian Houston went into the witness box and after a short history of the Hillsong church, defence counsel Phillip Boulten SC took him through the “dark days” after he discovered… Continue Reading
It may have been the first time that a person speaking in tongues had been quoted in an NSW Court. Quoting the tongues speaking by Frank Houston during his 2004 sermon in Maitland Christian Church, Crown Prosecutor Gareth Harrison questioned… Continue Reading
It was a cruel day in court as the three-week trial of Brian Houston on charges of failing to report the pedophile crimes of his father frank Houston to police, arrived at its halfway mark. In a short morning session,… Continue Reading
A visit to church at Christmas might be a natural thing to do for some, but for many Australians, even if they are believers, interrupting their holiday celebrations to attend a religious Christmas service may simply be too much to… Continue Reading
It was a devastating afternoon for former pastor John McMartin, a major part of whose evidence at the hearing into Brian Houston, on trial for failing to report the crimes of his father Frank, has been shown to be false.… Continue Reading
The mysterious documents subpoenaed from John McMartin’s Inspire Church were at the centre of the Brian Houston hearing today. The trial of Brian Houston the founder of Hillsong church has entered its second week of hearings. Witness John McMartin, formerly… Continue Reading
As Australia discusses Voice, Treaty, and Truth, the same urgent task faces each local church. A call to the local church to pursue reconciliation with local First Nations people comes in a speech Sandy Grant, Dean of Sydney’s St Andrews… Continue Reading