By Angus Thomson,Linda Morris,Stephen Brook

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The church took to Instagram (more modernisation) to announce: “We will soon launch a new podcast featuring the men and women of our community, focused on clearing up the inaccuracies, myths and biases about us, and telling everyone what life is really like inside our church.”

Sadly, the church’s first foray into modernisation, an Instagram account with only 150 followers, is yet to reach Abbie Chatfield levels of popularity. But “build it and he will come”, as Moses said in Exodus 33: 18-23. (Or was that Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams?)

To be honest, CBD thought the announcement picture of four chunky white blokes with side parts was all a bit samey. Turns out we were right. All the gents pictured are the sons of multimillionaire Sydney businessman Bruce D. Hales, known variously as BDH, the Lord’s Servant, the Elect Vessel or, when talking business, the CEO.

Back to the podcast. When Lavinia Richardson – a sparky young woman who left the church two years ago – volunteered to be a guest on their show, their response was to block her. They say they’re busting myths. She tells us “but they’d never open themselves to real scrutiny”.