It was Frank’s son Brian who turned his father’s operation into a megachurch. Worshippers at Hillsong Church in Australia. After rising through the ranks of New Zealand’s Assemblies of God church, Houston moved his family to Australia in 1976, and established a church called the Sydney Christian Life Centre. The Hillsong story began in New Zealand in the 1950s, when a young Salvation Army officer named Frank Houston suffered a nervous breakdown and was reborn as a Pentecostalist.
And to add insult to injury, Hillsong will be getting the satirical treatment in the first episode of The Betoota Advocate Presents, which premieres later this month on Paramount Plus. This weekend SBS will premiere The Kingdom, presented by Marc Fennell, who grew up attending several Pentecostal churches in Sydney, including Hillsong. In the US, the four-part documentary The Secrets of Hillsong just went to air.
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A podcast called Faith on Trial debuted earlier this year. Late last year came the four-part Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed. Now it’s the season of the Hillsong documentary. More recently it happened to Elizabeth Holmes, and the late Jeffrey Epstein, and the organisers of the hilariously disastrous Fyre festival.
More than three and you’re really in strife.Ī few years ago, Lance Armstrong got the multiple documentary treatment. Two or three at once is rarely a reason to break out the champagne. A single documentary can be cause for celebration. As a rule, it’s a bad sign when multiple documentaries and podcasts about you come out simultaneously.
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