Hillsong founder Brian Houston allegedly knew about, and covered up, his late father’s molestation of minors
Brian Houston Photo: Marcus Ingram/Getty Images It has been a rocky 12 months for Hillsong megachurch, thanks in large part to the calamity of “moral failings” that unfolded around flashy former minister Carl Lenz last fall. But now, Hillsong’s founder Brian Houston faces criminal charges in Australia as police allege he knew about, and covered up, his late father’s molestation of minors.
The substance of the charges is not news: In 2013, Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard allegations that Frank Houston had repeatedly sexually assaulted a 7-year-old boy in 1969 and 1970. The preacher, who died in 2004, would go on to form the Sydney Christian Life Centre in 1977, a predecessor to Hillsong.
The charges are just the latest in a series of scandals Hillsong has dealt with this year. Last November, “hypepriest” and pastor to the stars Carl Lentz — best known as Justin Bieber’s former spiritual advisor — lost his job after it emerged that he had been “unfaithful in [his] marriage.” Lentz’s affairs catalyzed his firing, but then came the allegations of exploitation and assault — against Lentz, and against another staffer, Jason Mays.
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