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Gloriavale doco obscures sinister truth

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016

Every winter for the past three years we’ve been offered another rare glimpse inside the controversial West Coast Christian community, through a series of documentary specials which increasingly seem to be little more than a NZ On Air-funded PR exercise for one of the country’s richest churches.

Wednesday night’s instalment, provocatively subtitled A Woman’s Place, presented a particularly rose-tinted view of life inside Gloriavale. It focused on two women: unmarried 22-year-old Dove Love and Angel Benjamin, a married woman in her late twenties who was expecting her sixth child. Continue reading

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