# Brian Houston **Summary.** Australian Pentecostal pastor. Founder of Hillsong Church (Sydney). Resigned in 2022 after an internal Hillsong board investigation into breaches of conduct with two women. Earlier author of *You Need More Money* (1999), cited as prosperity-gospel evidence. Concealed his father Frank Houston's child sexual abuse, later charged in 2021 for concealment. ## Facts - **Church founded.** Hillsong Church, 1983, in Sydney, Australia. - **Father.** Frank Houston (deceased 2004). Admitted child sexual abuser. - **2014.** Brian Houston testified before the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. - **2021.** Charged in New South Wales with concealing his father's abuse. - **2022.** Resigned from Hillsong leadership. - **2023.** Acquitted of the concealment charge on technical grounds; the court found he did believe abuse had occurred. ## Key Works - *You Need More Money: Discovering God's Amazing Financial Plan for Your Life*. 1999. ## Tradition Pentecostal, charismatic, prosperity-adjacent. ## Open Threads - A full read of the Royal Commission transcript would strengthen the concealment-and-accountability section. - A mapping of the post-Houston Hillsong leadership transition. ## Related - [[Hillsong]] - [[Frank Houston]] - [[Carl Lentz]] - [[NAR Worship Critique Traditions]]