Once the September 2026 JWB was back up, I had a go at seeing what was changed. Others have noticed that the original music video had been removed, but nobody apparently noticed the very creepy way in which they had removed it.

Next up is a two part series built around the September 2026 JW Broadcasting, hopefully by the end of the month.

Take care, Charlie

The West Australian:

Several Western Australian business leaders and high-ranking members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are facing a Supreme Court defamation lawsuit. The case was filed by Adam Chapman, a Quinns Rocks father who was excommunicated from the church following a dispute over a complaint he lodged three years ago. The exact nature of his original complaint currently remains under a suppression order.

The defendants named in the lawsuit include prominent figures such as Peter Meurs, a wealthy former executive director at Fortescue Metals and one of the most influential Mormons globally. Other defendants include Geoffrey Andrew Grant, the chief people officer at WA's Department of Transport, and Justin Richard, the CEO of Oar Resources. Rounding out the list are business owner Brent Arthur Kimpton and church bishop David Frost.

Chapman alleges that these individuals made multiple disparaging remarks about him following his fallout with the church. In response, the five defendants have formally applied to strike out Chapman’s statement of claim. While the church has publicly dismissed the defamation claims as "meritless," the matter is considered sensitive enough that American observers have been dispatched to monitor the legal proceedings. #WesternAustralia #DefamationLawsuit #LatterDaySaints #SupremeCourt

i haven’t heard anything about them in years! curious to know if anyone knows what they are up to and if there are still members left.

I’m really struggling with something in my relationship and I honestly don’t know if I’m overreacting, so I’d really appreciate some outside perspective.
I’ll keep everyone anonymous because this is an ongoing situation.
My boyfriend has become deeply involved with a particular spiritual/religious figure online. He believes this person is essentially a Messiah and has developed an extremely strong belief in what this person says.
At first, I tried to respect it as a spiritual belief. I don’t think someone having unusual religious beliefs automatically means there is something wrong with them, and I don’t want to be the kind of partner who tells someone what they’re allowed to believe.
The problem is that it has gone far beyond simply having a belief.
This person has started influencing my boyfriend’s actual decisions and relationships.
My boyfriend has taken things this person says and acted on them, including ending relationships, distancing himself from friends, and pushing people away. It seems like this person has increasingly become an authority in his life, and I’m becoming worried about how much influence they have over him.
He has also said things about how devoted he is to this person/belief that have genuinely frightened me, including essentially saying that he would die for it.
I’m not saying he is currently suicidal or that he is going to hurt himself. I don’t believe that is what he meant. But hearing your partner say that they would die for another person or their beliefs is still incredibly difficult.
The hardest part is that he doesn’t see this as a problem.
From his perspective, he’s made these decisions because he has reached some kind of higher understanding. If people around him disagree with him, he tends to interpret that as them not understanding him or not supporting him.
And this creates a horrible situation for me because I don’t want to become another person he cuts out.
He has a particularly strong reaction to feeling that people don’t trust or support him. If I tell him that I think he’s being manipulated or that I don’t trust this person, I’m worried he’ll interpret that as me not trusting him.
I don’t want to tell him what to believe.
But I also don’t know how I’m supposed to sit back and watch someone else become increasingly influential in my boyfriend’s life while his relationships with the people around him deteriorate.
I’ve tried to understand what he’s actually getting from this person. I’ve tried to listen rather than immediately argue. I’ve tried to understand the ideas behind it instead of just calling them ridiculous.
But I’m finding it increasingly difficult because this isn’t just about an ideology anymore.
It’s affecting our relationship.
It’s affecting his friendships.
It’s affecting his relationship with his family.
And it’s changing the way he sees people who disagree with him.
I’ve also become worried about the possibility that the more people challenge this belief system, the more isolated he might become.
If everyone around him says, “This person is manipulating you,” and he already believes that nobody else understands what he’s discovered, I can imagine him becoming even more defensive and withdrawing further.
So I’m genuinely stuck.
Do I confront him about it?
Do I stop discussing the spiritual side of it altogether and focus on how his behaviour is affecting our relationship?
Do I just keep supporting him while making it clear that I don’t agree?
At what point does respecting someone’s beliefs become enabling something that is actively damaging their life?
I love him. I’m not looking for people to tell me to immediately leave him or to tell me that he’s crazy.
I want to understand whether there is a way to approach this without making him feel attacked and without pushing him further towards this person.
If you’ve ever been in a relationship where your partner became heavily involved in a spiritual movement, religious group, online ideology, or another person who had an enormous influence over them, what did you actually do?
What helped?
What made things worse?
And how do you set boundaries around something like this when the other person genuinely believes they’re doing nothing bad?

Christopher Brain "dominated and abused his position" to sexually assault a "staggering number of women from his congregation", a court heard.

A former Church of England priest who ran a rave-inspired "cult" group has been found guilty of rape and indecent assault.

Christopher Brain, 69, had already been convicted of multiple indecent assaults while leader of the Nine O'Clock Service (NOS), part of a radical group of the Church of England in Sheffield, between 1986 and 1995.

The "vibrant church" services for young people included a live band and light shows - but the group became a cult with Brain at the centre, Inner London Crown Court was told.

The priest set up a "home base" team, known as the "Lycra Nuns", to care for him and his wife and daughter at home, the prosecution said.

At Inner London Crown Court on Friday, he was convicted of one count of rape and four counts of indecent assault.

He was previously convicted of 17 counts of indecent assault against nine women and found not guilty of another 15 charges of indecent assault.

Read full article >>>

More coverage:

• How rapist priest exploited charisma to abuse his 'cult-like' congregation, BBC, 3 Oct 2026
• Statement from Bishop of Sheffield following the retrial of Chris Brain, Anglican Link, 2 Oct 2026
• Leader of Christian ‘abuse cult’ guilty of rape, Telegraph 2 Oct 2026
• ‘Shame on Church of England’, says victim of former priest guilty of rape, Irish News, 2 Oct 2026
• 'Cult' priest guilty of rape and assault of women, BBC 2 Oct 2026
• Nine O’Clock Service priest who ran 'cult' group found guilty of rape and indecent assault, Independent, 2 Oct 2026

The original Gloriavale 2012-2014 Propaganda Documentary, aka Gloriavale: New Zealand's Christian Cult Community (3 episodes): Gloriavale on Prime Video

Gloriavale: The Return (the follow-up to the 2014 Propaganda Doc, released in 2018 *I believe* - 8 episodes): unsure yet, still searching for this one. EDIT: I posted a request on r/DownUnderTV and r/torrentrequest, here's hoping it gets fulfilled!

Gloriavale (the 2022 documentary, aka Gloriavale: New Zealand's Secret Cult - 1 hr. 30 mins.): Use a VPN to tunnel to New Zealand, then make an account and do a two-week free trial to DocPlay, then watch here Gloriavale || DocPlay. To then cancel your subscription (and I would cancel it at the two-week mark, there are a *lot* of great documentaries in their catalogue, lots about cults!), go here: https://www.docplay.com/profile then click on the 'subscription' tab. If the 'subscription' tab doesn't show up, just keep refreshing the page til it does. They do charge you $0.50 or whatever in your bank account when you add your card to check that you're a real person, but that's it.

Escaping Utopia (the 2024 docuseries - 3 episodes): Use a VPN to tunnel to New Zealand (I use Proton and already pay $10 a month for it, unsure if their free tier would work for TVNZ since it's technically a streaming service, but it's worth a shot--really you can use any VPN), then make a free account at TVNZ+ and watch it here Escaping Utopia || TVNZ+. If you find that the video keeps stopping with an error code every few seconds or every few minutes or something (and I found that I had this error regardless of which browser I was using, I tried Chrome and Firefox), a weird work-around that I found was turning my VPN off, tunneling to the UK, turning it off again, then tunneling back to New Zealand and then watching again, and I could then resume watching mostly uninterrupted (except with some buffer spots here and there). Don't try to select the video quality though, leave it on auto otherwise you run the risk of it erroring out again.

Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal? (otherwise known as Devotion: The Gloriavale Story--they are the same documentary, the latter title is its international title, it's the most recent 2026 docuseries): watch it on Paramount+ here Devotion: Obedience, or Betrayal? || Paramount+. If you have Spectrum (we do) you can get Paramount+ for free on most cable plans (go to sign in or make a new account and then connect your provider and choose Spectrum as your provider--some other TV services also include Paramount+ on their plans, check if that's the case for yours and follow the same steps), and if not, allegedly you can use this code (SAVE992MPREM) to get a free one-month trial.

Other Gloriavale media that I think is worth watching: Lilia Tarawa's TED Talk || YouTube

Gloriavale Cult Survivor Exposes Everything WRONG with New “Devotion” Doc (ft. Lilia Tarawa) || YouTube

Growing up Māori at Gloriavale: Valiant Overcomer's story | MATA Reports | RNZ || YouTube

If you all have other Gloriavale media you think is worth watching, post it below! Hope this helps! And if anyone has links to Gloriavale: The Return, let a girl know. TVNZ+ used to have it (likely before all the firestorm of allegations came out) but they have since taken it down.