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Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther took on the most powerful church on earth over prepaid sins and a Pope living like a king. He went back to three simple truths: you’re saved by faith alone, the Bible is the only authority, and every Christian has direct access to Jesus. Mainstream Christianity still stands on those three pillars today. Russell asks one simple question of a church that calls i...

Russell is an ex-member, and he’s speaking straight to the genuine believers still inside the PBCC. He takes apart two Bruce Hales teachings that keep people from leaving. The first is that walking out puts your eternal salvation at risk. The second is that Jesus only goes to the PBCC. He answers both with the simplest scriptures there are, John 3:16 and Matthew 18:20, and he doesn’t hold back. #P...

There are about 1,500 Brethren meeting halls around the world. The local brethren paid for them, built them and maintained them, often over generations. So who actually controls them now? Steve Simmons walks through what has quietly changed. In New Zealand, every locality's hall has been placed in a new trust, and every one of those trusts has the same corporate trustee, PBCC Properties New Zealan...

Master manipulator Bruce Hales rules his 55,000+ sheep by coercive control, not by Christianity. Kristin Wolf explains the mechanism of coercive control and shows how it works inside the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC), formerly known as the Exclusive Brethren. On October 16, Bruce Hales sat in front of the Australian Parliament and told them his members are free to make their own decisi...

What happens when religious authority and secrecy create an environment where abuse can remain hidden for generations? In this episode, we welcome Mike King from Profiling Evil, a retired police commander and criminal investigator with over 40 years of experience. Drawing from his investigations into the FLDS and Zion Society, Mike explains why law enforcement often struggles to investigate crimes...

Joy Nason was born into the Exclusive Brethren, the group that now calls itself the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC), and it shaped every part of her early life, from her friendships and family to the way she saw the world. In her twenties she walked out, and she paid the price every ex-member knows. Her family and friends were cut off from her, and the only community she had ever known c...

Australia is fed up with the secrecy and deceit of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, formerly known as the Exclusive Brethren. For those of us who were once inside, we lived this. We know how they can twist the narrative, bring in the big guns when they’re under scrutiny, and use deep financial pockets to make problems go away or keep people silent. But now, the world is getting a glimpse of...

Just a few short weeks after Lloyd Grimshaw's sworn testimony to the Government of Australia, and his teetering tower of tall tales has tumbled, swept away by a tidal wave of witnesses and a royal flush of receipts. Lloyd dismissed Michael Bachelard's reports of the PBCC hiring neo-N@zi thugs to stalk and harass Prime Minister Albanese, saying "...it doesn't even meet the threshold of gossip..." a...

In this episode we introduce the Invisible Man of God in the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church: Houdini Hales. His face and voice are broadcast worldwide on the Global Media Stream, familiar to anyone inside the church and to a growing number outside it. He is solid enough to need motorcades and armed bodyguards when he travels, and particular enough to require his dietary needs met to the letter...

Lying, crying and denying, Lloyd Grimshaw is dragged before the Federal Government of Australia under threat of subpoena. What a spectacle! What a sensation! Watch as the oily PBCC spin doctor veers from perjury to comedy, in a desperate attempt to avoid admitting the plain, obvious and inevitable facts of the PBCC’s 2025 Election Interference campaign. Finally cornered, the grim-faced Grimshaw ha...

In 1983, Geoff left the Exclusive Brethren, a movement deeply shaped by J.N. Darby’s doctrine of separation and later reinforced under James Taylor Jr. into a system that profoundly impacted family and community life. For decades, this doctrine has divided parents from children, siblings from siblings, and members from the wider world. Its legacy remains evident today in the Plymouth Brethren Chri...

For years, people have asked the same question: Where were the teachers the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church hired? Issue No. 11 of Lady Whistleblown's Brethren Dispatch explores why so many remained silent. Through documents, correspondence, and the voices of teachers themselves, this issue uncovers the deception, fear, and emotional burden that kept many from speaking out and why the truth is...

The long awaited podcast is finally here! After we aired Ep.110, Trent's horrific priestly visit with Mick Strange, Rod Diplock, Randy Thomas and Greg Baldwin, so many wanted to know what happened after. Trent joins us to give the full account of their "hacking allegation", what led up to it and how he got out of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. If you're still inside the church and wonderi...

The Town of Maple Creek recently closed Main Street to host a public event featuring the Rapid Relief Team (RRT).That event prompted me to launch this petition. In this video, I explain why I believe the Town should be held accountable for publicly promoting and associating with the Rapid Relief Team, and why I believe this decision deserves far greater public scrutiny. Whether you live in Maple C...

The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church invited the Geelong Advertiser into its new Geelong meeting hall to show the public that, "At the end of the day, we're just ordinary people."So... how did that work out? Get-A-Life takes a critical look at the resulting article and asks why Bruce Hales, having condemned "reputation-seeking" as a bane, keeps running back to Rupert Murdoch for more punishment....

The Rapture may not be imminent, but Rapid Relief Team v Bawtinheimer certainly is, with the first hearing in this critical court case this week. We bring you the latest twists and turns as RRT’s lawyers Church and Graif try every trick in the book to escape Randazza’s revenge - and fail. While the PBCC’s legal, political and publicity platforms collapse around his ears, Bruce boldly bullshits on,...

On the heels of the global outrage over the PBCC pet ban, Bruce Hales isn't backing down. Instead, he's reaching back into the archives and resurrecting some of his most infamous ministry from 2003. And he didn't do it once. He did it two Thursdays in a row. That tells you this isn't about nostalgia or revisiting church history. It's about re-establishing boundaries and reminding members exactly w...

The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church pet controversy has now exploded across the world, with headlines in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada and beyond. After reports emerged that a child connected to the Hales family was bitten by a dog, new ministry regarding pets was reportedly read out across the PBCC internationally. Families have been left devastated, terrified and confused as dogs, ca...

Edmonton lawyer reacts to the horrifying statistics uncovered in Dr. Jill Aebi-Mytton’s research into the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church including findings that 41% of former members surveyed reported experiencing (CSA). At what point does the law step in and demand change? Make sure to check out his full video here starting around 2:13:00- https://www.youtube.com/live/1Y8bV_z0Rq8?si=bsmf-LUVN...

Well known Edmonton lawyer, Ian Runkle from the @RunkleOfTheBailey YouTube Channel looked over the claims of Brown Rudnick LLP's client, Rapid Relief Team and laughed! The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) is the charity arm of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church that recently took a copyright infringement case against this channel. Ian went through this case on his channel and gave some sage advice that...

Attorney Marc Randazza breaks down a classic legal miscalculation on @excitedutterance : foreign entities trying to use the American court system to silence dissent, only to be met with the full force of the First Amendment. Randazza explains why he openly shares his legal filings, hoping others will steal them and how Section 107 of the Copyright Act serves as a fierce shield against those attemp...

This little kitten was healthy, loved, and part of someone’s family. Now she’s dead because a group of religious men decided pets might “take affection away from God.”Since releasing information about the PBCC pet ban, I’ve received messages and phone calls from devastated people all over the world. Former members, current members, and families completely shattered over what is happening to animal...

The weaponization of copyright law creates a dangerous precedent for free speech. Legal expert Marc Randazza breaks down a concerning case on @Excitedutterance where copyright claims are allegedly used as a distraction to silence critics. If this legal theory succeeds, it could turn courts into hubs for censorship, allowing entities to suppress critical reporting simply by claiming copyright infri...

The Rapid Relief Team and the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church picked the wrong person to try and silence. This video is a direct update on the lawsuit filed against me after Get-a-Life Podcast exposed material they desperately wanted gone. Their lawyers demanded videos be removed. They expected fear, compliance, silence, and another former member pushed back into a corner. That didn’t happen. M...

When a controversial church organization like the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church and Rapid Relief Team attempts to silence a sexual abuse survivor, the battleground takes a bizarre turn. Instead of addressing serious allegations, the organization initiates a lawsuit over a cartoon kookaburra logo used in a podcast. This legal maneuver highlights the intimidation tactics often used against vict...