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🍿 COMING THIS WEEK 🍿 ‘UNDER HIS COMMAND’ Just announced, an absolute must watch five-part investigative series by John Campbell on Destiny Church which starts streaming on TVNZ+ this Thursday 24 April. From TVNZ: “John Campbell has spent months investigating Destiny Church, encountering fear from insiders like he’s never...

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Kelvin Morgan 🇳🇿1 year ago

🍿 Please use this link to view John Campbell’s five-part investigative series on Destiny Church which starts streaming on TVNZ+ Thursday 24 April:

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Skydance1 year ago

The detective is in. All episodes of #CrossOnPrime are NOW STREAMING on @PrimeVideo.

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azzaw19811 year ago

Thanks for bringing this doco to our attention. I'm so keen to see what John uncovers. I'll await Brian's "I'm a victim cry me a river" post after it's released.

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Kelvin Morgan 🇳🇿1 year ago

I’m picking John requested an interview, he asked for the questions in advance and then declined to participate after they were provided. Either way this isn’t going to end well for Tamaki for I suspect the lid is about to be blown right off the church💥

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Sassafras ⛅🌈 🌞1 year ago

Are they training up to be the black shirts that police genitalia at toilets?

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Kelvin Morgan 🇳🇿1 year ago

A.k.a the DPP: 🚨Destiny Penis Police🚨

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alex1 year ago

Oh look, Brian indoctrinating young people, but it's only bad when the rainbow community are doing it...

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Samuel Hudson1 year ago

🍿 🍿 🍿

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I hate propoganda1 year ago

Anything MSM is pure propoganda , get a fukn grip ,

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Kelvin Morgan 🇳🇿1 year ago

This you champ?

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Amanda Rowe1 year ago

Wow. Awesome. John is very acclaimed and respected. Sounds like it could be very insightful into Destiny's inner workings. You can imagine what Tamaki's response might be. Something unhinged as per usual..

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📍It began back in February as two emails in John Campbell’s crowded inbox — voices of former Destiny members whose courage lit the fuse for what would become a months-long journey into the world of Brian Tamaki and Destiny Church, ultimately producing the extraordinary Under His Command series. What came next was three months of almost full-time work, cautiously gathering interviews, one person leading to another, and an initial five-part series that revealed people left in darkness, feeling lost and afraid, convinced that the God they had been taught to love had been replaced by obedience to a man. In a piece written to accompany the series, Campbell describes tiptoeing into people’s lives — long, quiet phone calls with hesitant sources, missed calls that hinted at real danger, and a potentially at-risk woman who simply disappeared. He had to sit with people who were terrified of being discovered by the church, worried that speaking to him could bring retribution. Campbell’s careful, human approach forms the backbone of the series, helping people find their voices again. At the heart of the story is a form of theology that has become a weaponised political instrument, with anger turned into a marketing tool. Campbell observes Brian Tamaki’s weekly sermons becoming increasingly extreme and incendiary promoting far-right agendas — messaging carefully repackaged for his predominantly Māori and Pasifika congregation, a message that, a professor in the series says, is sharply at odds with the history of those communities. From violent encounters with the public, to street marches where the flags of other religions and the rainbow community are condemned and ripped apart, the series shows how Tamaki’s grievance is amplified into ritual and how young people within the church are being indoctrinated and primed to carry these grievances forward. But the series isn’t just about spectacle — it’s about the people who lived through it, the losses they carry, and the small redemptions they’ve fought for. Te Ahi Wairua (not her real name) describes Destiny as “a place of lostness,” a phrase that resonated with many others, prompting them to share their own experiences with Campbell. There’s also the powerful story of Wayne, a founding member of ManUp, who turned his life around through the program but walked away 10 years later when he realised that obedience to Brian Tamaki had replaced a direct connection with God. He speaks of his despair over ManUp’s growing involvement in Destiny’s increasingly angry and confrontational activism. If you watched the first season and felt uneasy, season two, released on Monday, digs deeper— revealing the real consequences: children within the church being taught to march and chant before they understand its meaning, and the fallout from Rainbow Story Time’s defamation case. 🍿 Essential viewing, season two of John Campbell’s Under his Command is streaming now on TVNZ+ here: Please also take the time to read John Campbell’s personal reflections on making the series; a link to the story can be found in the comments below. Ngā Mihi

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📍So there’s no disputing the actual numbers who turned out for tonight’s Brian Tamaki led vigil in Tāmaki Makaurau’s Aotea Square for slain Turning Point founder and president Charlie Kirk. Here’s a pan of the audience, courtesy of Hannah Tamaki. As you’ll see, attendance peaked at around 200 people, almost all Destiny Church members. Hardly the mass uprising of Christian nationalists and keyboard warriors Tamaki likely envisioned—more like a Destiny night service with candles. Why? Because: ‘Brian Tamaki’. Speaking to the crowd in the clip below is Tamaki’s executive assistant, Jenny Marshall. When she’s not live-streaming urban legends about students supposedly defecating into kitty litter trays in classrooms, she’s busy producing and posting his ChatGPT-generated rants to social media. Listen closely from the 50sec mark, where you’ll hear her make a highly embarrassing faux pas: mentioning hearing someone liken Charlie Kirk’s life to that of Martin Luther King Jr’s, and saying, “this is actually our version of that in our age.” The problem? Kirk himself has openly and repeatedly criticized MLK’s character and legacy. In a December 2023 speech at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, he flatly called MLK “awful” and “not a good person,” arguing that his alleged misconduct had been whitewashed into a “mythical” icon. Moral of the story: if you’re going to rewrite history, at least check your facts before speaking publicly, or risk turning the legacy you claim to uphold into a mockery. If there’s one thing we can take away from tonight, it’s that the event’s meager turnout made clear that Tamaki’s influence—and the hype around Kirk here in Aotearoa—as always, only stretches to his immediate circle and a few hangers-on. #nzpol

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