In Part 2 of Angel's story of Hillsong Bible college in Sydney, after his visa is cancelled, far from home and family, Angel makes moves to take back control of his life and his thinking...

We find out what happened with immigration and the mountain of lessons learned from and in spite of...being a Hillsong bible college student..

Join Pedagogist and Cat Lover, Angel Huertas, talking about Leaving Hillsong and Leaving church and finding out what and whom to trust!

Come chat with us in Puerto Rico!

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In Part 2 of Angel's story of Hillsong Bible college in Sydney, after his visa is cancelled, far from home and family, Angel makes moves to take back control of his life and his thinking...

We find out what happened with immigration and the mountain of lessons learned from and in spite of...being a Hillsong bible college student..

Join Pedagogist and Cat Lover, Angel Huertas, talking about Leaving Hillsong and Leaving church and finding out what and whom to trust!

Come chat with us in Puerto Rico!

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Angel Huertas hails from Puerto Rico and in 2005, he was super excited to go to bible college in Sydney, Australia!

He packed up and set sail for sunshine and theology and he found something very different. Far from home, when things took a turn for the not so happy.... Angel realised how far away he really was..

Angel is a teacher and shares his learnings with us ... tonight... come chat!

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Following last week's plunge into the sordid and sincere, PCD and TL chat more about

#why PCD thinks BCH should 'wake up every morning screaming'

#what the 'words of knowledge' are really all about in the pentecostal movement

#if Christianity offers any 'good' at all...

#what those people are still doing in #thatplace!

and so much more so don't wait a second longer!

Come chat!

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Paul Castle Dine made a $5 bet with a friend about the group with the tambourine that were camped outside his job at Mcdonalds as a teen... he won... well, he was right.. but it lead directly to his initiation into the Hills Christian Life centre which unbeknownst to anyone least of all PCD in the mid 1980s was going to explode one day into the virus called Hillsong.

Your loyal host is always up for a step back in time and so well, between the old Donna stories and some Brian lore, we found time to shake our heads in nostalgic horror about a world hit by one disease and about to endure a plague of a different kind.

Join this alumni for some inside dirt and some equally strong views now ... !!! Come chat!

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In the final part of The Grifter Highway, Janice Lagata from God Has Not Given in New York shares some more views on the people that ran the New York Hillsong.

We talk about the finances that the 'church' threw around and spent and how did they end up with no money again?

Can there be redemption for Hillsong? What will happen to Carl Lentz?

And a quick question about where Brian has citizenship??? hmmmm

Find out in part 3! Come chat!

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@godhasnotgiven Star Janice Lagata continues her discussion from New York City with Tanya about:

• hell
• podcasts
• friends who think you're going to hell
• leaving church
• whatever might be going on in preachers' heads when they spend up all that money!

So come talk the big talk as we travel further on down The Grifter Highway... come chat!

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Writer, performer, musician and host of top-rating #exvangelical and life podcast @godhasnotgiven, Janice Lagata, joins Tanya Levin to discuss her story of being in and leaving the most famous of all the Hillsongs--- New York City with Pastor Carl Lentz.

Teamed up to discuss the internal investigation report from the lawyers, we move on to topics including Janice's own history and her perspective now the report, the pastors, and the leaders are all OUT...

This is nothing if not HONEST and Janice is her warm, funny wise self as we take a look at... The Grifter Highway...

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On 15 and 16 June, the closing arguments in the trial of R v Brian Charles Houston were heard at Sydney's Downing Centre, the prosecution and the defence allocated one day each.

Jake Elliot from @the_framew0rk and me, Tanya were there both days to see these things in real life and he took notes while I stared at Bobbie.

We take a good stab at understanding what took place, offer some opinions for what they're worth and we even hear from our LH lawyer !

I don't think the prosecutor is Scottish but it was exciting to think so... this case is so detailed ... the best is still yet to come out!!!

Come chat!!

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Peter Fox is a former Detective Chief Inspector of the NSW Police force and had been on the force for decades when he came across cover ups in the Catholic church of pedophilia in the very neighbourhood he commanded.

Worse yet, when he brought this to the attention of the police, he was directed to hand over his investigation.

Mr Fox blew the whistle and demanded a royal commission into these issues. It cost him his career, but not his will.

I was thrilled to talk to Peter about how he sparked a royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse in Australia, and his thoughts on Hillsong.

DON'T MISS THIS!!

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