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The Secrets of Hillsong (2023)
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With fresh reporting and analysis from journalists, historians and policymakers, go beyond the sensational headlines and behind the velvet rope to examine the church's long pattern of covering up misconduct to protect itself.
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Carl LentzSelf - Former Lead Pastor
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Alex FrenchSelf - Vanity Fair
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Dan AdlerSelf - Vanity Fair
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Brian HoustonSelf - Hillsong Church Founder (archive footage)
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Bobbie HoustonSelf - Hillsong Church Founder (archive footage)
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Agnes ChuExecutive Producer
Alex FrenchExecutive Producer
Dan AdlerExecutive Producer
David CollinsExecutive Producer
Joel ChiodiExecutive Producer
Michael WilliamsExecutive Producer
Rob EricExecutive Producer
Sarah AmosExecutive Producer
Stacey LeeProducer
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4 episodes · First aired 2023-05-19 · ★ 7.8
E01
Church in the Wild
2023-05-19 · 65 min
In 2015, a young pastor named Carl Lentz lands in NYC to spread the Word of Hillsong, an ascendant Australian megachurch. But allegations of volunteer exploitation, racism, sexual abuse and homophobia explode. Lentz is fired and disappears until now.
E02
The Prodigal Son
2023-05-19 · 63 min
In their first interviews since expulsion from the church, Carl and Laura Lentz guide viewers into the inner sanctum of Hillsong, detailing the building the church’s congregation and the response from church leadership when it deemed Carl a liability.
E03
Sins of the Father
2023-05-26 · 63 min
As a group of international reporters examine Hillsong’s global network, it becomes clear that long before Carl Lentz’s transgressions, Hillsong’s founding father, Frank Houston, laid the groundwork for the church’s pattern of covering up misconduct with non-disclosure agreements and hush money. And his son, Brian Houston, has allegedly been trying to cover up his father’s predatory past for decades.
E04
False Prophets
2023-05-26 · 62 min
Shortly after Carl Lentz’s expulsion from Hillsong, Brian Houston is formally charged with concealing his father’s crimes and banished from Hillsong after allegations of his own misconduct are made public. Carl, Laura and a multigenerational group of former Hillsong congregants examine the rubble and collectively attempt to answer the ultimate question: What do you do when you discover the shepherd is the problem?
