(Posted at Bene Diction Blogs On July 3, 2014)
Big thanks to blogger Peter T. Chattaway at Patheos, who brings us
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/filmchat/2014/07/watch-teaser-for-hillsong-documentary-let-hope-rise.html
the latest news about Hillsong United
Next Easter, Warner Brothers will release Hillsong: Let Hope Rise, a documentary concentrating on the worship band part of this church movement. Chattaway tells us all about it.
Bene D has written quite extensively about Hillsong. Such as their controversial ties to an Australian treatment center
http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/03/18/australias-hillsong-abuse-at-mercy-ministries/"> center
http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2009/10/27/mercy-ministries-close-in-australia-hillsong-backpeddles/"
resulting fallout from that. How back in 2006. various bloggers in Australia
http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2006/06/22/signposts-dogfightatbankstown-abc-and-hillsong/
perceived that not all was quite right with the church
How Australians feared that
http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2007/10/06/hillsong-accused-of-vote-stacking-australian-idol/
the church may have tried vote-stacking on the Australian Idol TV show. Br>I remember first reading about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Levin Tanta Levin at BDBO < at BDBO. In 2007, she wrote the book People Who Live in Glass Houses, published in Australia, giving her "with the bark off" perspective on feeling the need to leave Hillsong due to the problems she saw with the movement. I had to buy my copy of the book from a bookstore in Australia as it got relatively little attention in North America. People, like Bene D, who were following Hillsong, knew of the book, but the general public didn't seem to pick up on it. There was a small flurry of press attention in Australia when Levin's book came out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuU-MlywCs8