Behind the Brotherhood: The Elect Vessel, Bruce Hales – National – NZ Herald News. POSTERS COMMENT: I post the below after searching to see if Wikipeebia had already hosted this article. I could not find that they had. Please forgive me if this is doubling up. Behind the Brotherhood: The Elect Vessel, Bruce HalesBy Patrick Gower5:00 AM […]
As posted on Richard Stay’s Blog here: You can’t fool all of the people Mister Hales. I know Mister Hales is supposed to be wise and great and chosen and everything, particularly as he models himself as the “Minister of the Lord in the recovery” and “the personification of Christ on earth” – but he […]
Suicide and Bruce Hales, leader of the Exclusive Brethren, or Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. The delusion of men who pronounce themselves as direct conduits from God – and who meter out their OWN interpretations of divine justice – is as wicked and delusional as anything I have ever heard. The Brethren do it. And so […]
Hales certainly fancies himself as a great businessman – schooled by his late father as he loves to tell his followers. No doubt he also sees himself as the greatest architect of Brethren structure and makeovers in their checkered and increasingly cruel and illogical history. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. While […]
Over the past 10 years, we have witnessed the gradual but determined efforts of the Exclusive Brethren World leader to reinvigorate and sanitize the Hales brand. His family brand. Let’s face it, Team Hales has been besieged with flaws and ‘matters’ over the past 45 years, which have at times, left the family in tatters. […]
A couple of strong rumours emanating from Peebland recently would indicate that things are not all rosy in the flock. Firstly – we have a strong tip that BDH is telling the Peebs to start stripping JHS’s ministry from the shelves for landfill. Apparently his chipping away at beatifying his father’s memory and deeds has […]
[This section refers to a phase in Exclusive Brethrenism in 2002 when the Brethren began to have second thoughts about some of the members they had summarily excommunicated. They began to approach many such members, sometimes in a conciliatory fashion, to see whether they would consider returning to the EB fold. Very few wanted to […]
This Paper was presented by Roger at an International Conference on Trauma Counselling in November 1993. (Expanded version) I want to begin with a brief passage from Boris Pasternak’s great novel, Doctor Zhivago: ‘Revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track minds, men who are narrow minded to the point of genius. […]
