ex-Hillsong Global Senior Pastor Brian Houston's criminal trial begins in Sydney (A Current Aff

Brian Houston, the disgraced former leader of Hillsong, was charged in 2021 with concealing the pedophilia of his father Frank Houston.

The criminal trial began yesterday in the District Court in Sydney, and this is a local media account of the charge.

Frank, and not Brian Houston was the founder of the Church that became Hillsong, That church, formerly Hills Christian Life Centre, was given to his son Brian as a fiefdom. We are entitled to ask: Can such a bad tree bear good fruit?