by Tanya Levin
1. Brian Houston, You need more money, Brian Houston Ministries, Castle Hill, NSW, 1999, p. 2.
I JUST CAN’T WAIT TO BE KING
1. Brian Houston, For this Cause, Maximised Leadership Incorporated, Castle Hill, NSW, 2001, p. 25.
WHEN THE GENERALS TALK
1. Oral Roberts, ‘Victory out of defeat’, Charisma, Dec. 1989, p. 88.
2. Ziva Branstetter, ‘Reaping from Faith’, Tulsa World, 24 April 2003.
3. ibid.
4. http://www.wallwatchers.org, 18 March 2005.
IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY
1. Barna.org, People’s Faith Flavor Inf luences How They See Themselves, 26 August 2002, www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=119.
2. ‘You can live free of depression’, www.andrewbartlett.com/blog/?p=208.
3. HG Koenig, LK George, KG Meador, BG Blazer & P Dyke, ‘Religious affiliation and psychiatric disorder in Protestant baby boomers’, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 45, pp. 586–96, 1994.
4. Margaret Singer and Richard Ofshe, ‘Thought Reform Programs and the Production of Psychiatric Casualties’, Psychiatric Annals, 20:4/April 1990.
5. ibid.
6. ibid.
7. Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2001.
8. For the Fundamentalism Project, see especially Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, eds, Vol. 5, Fundamentalisms Comprehended, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995.
CONSIDER ME GONE
1. Bobbie Houston, I’ll Have What She’s Having, Hillsong Australia, Castle Hill, NSW, 1998, pp. 127–8.
AND THE BAND PLAYED ON
1. http://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-carl-lentz-will-not-preach-on-sexuality-from-pulpit-refuses-to-ostracize-people-111211/
2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/17/hillsong-church-gays_n_6002762.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
3. http://hillsong.com/media/statement-re-recent-media-comments-on-homosexuality
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wqRAJrl0eA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
There are many people without whom this book would not have been possible for too many reasons to list. There were many people who were supportive of this project and of me, and their confidence has made this idea become a reality. So many gave of themselves freely—their intimate experiences, their time, their patience and their honest humanity—as this work unfolded. I was and am humbled and very grateful. Some people are not listed here because they can’t be. They know how much they are appreciated. Also there are some on this list whom I haven’t actually met. That’s neither here nor there. Their help meant a lot too.
My family was my biggest concern when I started work on this manuscript. My parents’ unqualified support of me and my endeavours has been invaluable all my life. Their willingness to believe in me when I was challenging our entire foundations was incredible. I’m a lucky kid.
And a lucky mother. Thanks to Sam for putting up with a book that took so much time away from us. I hope it’s worth it to you in the end. You are an extraordinary person.
A massive thank you to the people who are Black Inc., particularly Chris Feik for his unwavering belief in this project and his editorial genius.
The following list is in no particular order. It’s just a thank-you note for the generosity I encountered in this quest.
The makers of Up & Go, Lyn Tranter, Kathryn Harries, Grant, Deirdre O’Shea, Peter Damir, Ilona Tar, Richirich, John and Louise Borg, Sam Tree, Rebecca Kaiser, Jenny Sipkema, Rebecca Huntley, Bruno, Janis Schindler, Sarah Silverman, Naomi Wolf, Fiona Collins, Bruce Springsteen, Philip Powell, Henry Sheppard, Geoff Bullock, Noah Fischel, Angela Clarke, Michelle Dyball, Bevan’s Thirroul, Clare Henderson, Christine Borg, Jim Cummings, Bek and Ali, Michael Jose, Alicia T., Sam Wegner, Dean de Haas, Melissa Scott, Stephen Grant, Suzie Matthews, A.A.
Milne, Pete Evans and the Trinity Foundation, David Gaudiosi, Kathy Boon, Meg Simons, Cherry Hardaker, Shatter, Paul and Kyle Kohn, Matthew Oborn, Penny and Natasha, Jane Kennedy, Anthony Venn-Brown, Bessie Bardot, Peter Dwyer, Geoff Barker, Nic Coloquhoun, Matt Legge, Lichelle Mangakahia, Tyla Kenzie, Holly Klein, Peter and Delores Theodore, St Vincent de Paul Wollongong, Dr Carmen Lawrence, Bono Vox, Stephen King, the boys from the Chaser, Dr Louise Newman, Vilma Ryan, Dr Jason Pireh, and my current Christ, smile … we will be Friends For Life.