Soul Survivors: The inside story of how Mike Pilavachi's abuse was uncovered
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Megan Cornwell2024-06-24T14:30:00
Megan Cornwell has spent the past twelve months investigating one of the most shocking scandals to hit the UK evangelical Church in recent years. Here she explains what her reporting for Premier Christianity’s critically acclaimed podcast series has uncovered
Laughter filled the enormous tent as a large, curly-haired man in a garish shirt walked across the stage, speaking into a microphone. Beside him was a younger, more athletic-looking man in jeans and a T-shirt. Occasionally, the older man would put his arm around the younger one and playfully poke fun at him – “Crofty”, he would affectionately call him.
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