Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
CRAIG HOYLE is the Chief News Director of the Sunday Star-Times in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2009, 60 Minutes focused on Craig as a seventh-generation member of the secretive Exclusive Brethren sect – as well as someone who had been expelled from the group after coming out as gay.
• Why were Craig's siblings spirited away in the middle of the night?
• How did the Brethren try to change his sexuality?
• What are the principles that force a family to disown their eldest son?
CRAIG HOYLE tells all in this fascinating interview.
00:00 START
01:47 Who are the Exclusive Brethren?
03:46 Growing up Brethren
19:30 Sexuality
35:31 Excommunication
44:49 Thrust into the world
53:55 Craig's book: 'Excommunicated'
LINKS FOR CRAIG HOYLE
X/Twitter: twitter.com/craighoylenz
Instagram: instagram.com/craighoylenz
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/craig-hoyle-95535a189
Diary of a Brethren Boy bit.ly/3MtwAZ2
Sunday Star-Times stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times
Olive Leaf Network New Zealand - a collection of people dedicated to supporting survivors and leavers of high-demand religious groups: https://nz.oliveleaf.network/
HarperCollins link: harpercollins.com/products/excommunicated-craig-hoyle?variant=41056013942818
FOOTAGE
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CRAIG HOYLE is the Chief News Director of the Sunday Star-Times in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2009, 60 Minutes focused on Craig as a seventh-generation member of the secretive Exclusive Brethren sect – as well as someone who had been expelled from the group after coming out as gay.
• Why were Craig's siblings spirited away in the middle of the night?
• How did the Brethren try to change his sexuality?
• What are the principles that force a family to disown their eldest son?
CRAIG HOYLE tells all in this fascinating interview.
00:00 START
01:47 Who are the Exclusive Brethren?
03:46 Growing up Brethren
19:30 Sexuality
35:31 Excommunication
44:49 Thrust into the world
53:55 Craig's book: 'Excommunicated'
LINKS FOR CRAIG HOYLE
X/Twitter: twitter.com/craighoylenz
Instagram: instagram.com/craighoylenz
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/craig-hoyle-95535a189
Diary of a Brethren Boy bit.ly/3MtwAZ2
Sunday Star-Times stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times
Olive Leaf Network New Zealand - a collection of people dedicated to supporting survivors and leavers of high-demand religious groups: https://nz.oliveleaf.network/
HarperCollins link: harpercollins.com/products/excommunicated-craig-hoyle?variant=41056013942818
FOOTAGE
Auckland City via iTraveller
Invercargill via Phantom Exploration
Driving Dee Street in Invercargill | NewZealandRoadTrips
Incidental music by the indomitable Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com
Interviews powered by streamyard.com
**********
TALK BELIEFS: Exploring - and challenging - what and why we believe.
The Talk Beliefs YouTube Channel has been online since 2015 and has been featured on Reggie Yates' Extreme UK for BBC 3 Television. Would you like to help support Talk Beliefs or perhaps tell your own story in an interview? Channel inquiries & direct messages: unchainedmind1@gmail.com
Talk Beliefs - In Association with Evolution Soup (Sister Channel).
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Join the Talk Beliefs Facebook Group bit.ly/2fCRLLF
Follow the Talk Beliefs Facebook Page: fb.me/talkbeliefs
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Tik Tok: @talkbeliefs
Would you like to become a supporter of the Talk Beliefs YouTube channel? Click HERE ow.ly/vn2v30fVYBx
Talk Beliefs Logo Animation by Zaraza Iulian bit.ly/2ytX4Vt
Royalty Free Music via Purple Planet: purple-planet.com
*****
Thinking about leaving your religion? Need to talk?
Recovering From Religion - Find a worldwide support group:
recoveringfromreligion.org
*****
"I love making #talkbeliefs content and appreciate every view, like, and share! Through this channel, people have come to terms with leaving religion, and have taken the first steps to leaving destructive cults. It's my goal to continue to help and educate. Thank you all for your support." ~ Mark :-)
Evolution Soup - The World of Evolution
YouTube: goo.gl/X19xK6
Podcast: evolutionsoup.buzzsprout.com
Instagram: instagram.com/evolution_soup
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/evolutionsoup
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DISCLAIMER:
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
#atheism #science #reason #humanism #christianity #evolution #creation #creationism #belief #secular #mormon #freethinker #darwin #humanist #cult #cults #atheist #humanist #mormon #religion #bookofmormon #jehovah #harekrishna #scientology #leahremini #scientologyandtheaftermath #secularism #dawkins #beliefs #creationist #paleo #cultsandextremebeliefs #paleoanthrology #exjw #exmormon #exchristian #exscientologist
