23rd Jan, 2026 – Lighthouse Friday Update – Do Catrin Nye and Alexandra Stein Conspire With and Shield Child Abusers?

Lighthouse Daily – 23rd January 2026..

By Paul S. Waugh

In the following update, you will find:

1. Today’s Update
2. Daily Prayer – A Prayer on Resurrecting Faith in Christ
3. Today’s Daily “Citizen/Christian and The Establishment Problem” Example – How The Establishment Keeps You In Line – Punishment Through Process
4. Lighthouse Associates Consensus Feedback

1. Today’s Update

Good day everyone,

In today’s Lighthouse Daily Update we look at one of the most dangerous lies in the BBC’s coverage of Lighthouse Global: the claim that journalists like Catrin Nye, backed by “cult expert” Alexandra Stein and her Family Survival Trust, are bravely “protecting families” from harm. When you listen to the people we are working with here at Lighthouse, a very different reality emerges. Behind the BBC’s emotive packaging are parents and relatives with long histories of grooming, sexual abuse, neglect, and psychological torture, now being platformed as “victims” to bury the truth about what they did to their own children.

This piece asks a simple but critical question: when Catrin Nye says she is standing up for families, which families is she really protecting – and from whom? It contrasts Paul S Waugh’s repentance and accountability over strong language with the unrepentant patterns of abuse inside some of the loudest anti‑Lighthouse families, and shows how the BBC’s narrative is pressuring survivors back towards the very people who traumatised and damaged them in the first place.

👉 Read the full article here: Do Catrin Nye & Alexandra Stein Conspire With & Shield Child Abusers?

God bless

Paul S. Waugh, Chris Nash, Shaun Cooper

2. Daily Prayer

Today’s Daily Prayer focuses on resurrecting faith in Christ — inviting us to bring before God the places where our trust has grown weak, our hope has dimmed, or our devotion has quieted. It calls us to seek renewed life in Him, bold obedience, and a faith that rises above fear, distraction, and self-reliance. May this prayer rekindle your heart toward Christ.

👉 Paul S. Waugh’s Daily Prayer – A Prayer on Resurrecting Faith in Christ 

3. Today’s Daily “Citizen/Christian and the Establishment Problem” Example

How The Establishment Keeps You In Line – Punishment Through Process

Daniel ShenSmith, otherwise known as the Blackbelt Barrister has highlighted in a recent video on 19th January 2026 how the judicial system punishes those that do not obey the Establishment, by putting them through ordeals as part of the process they need to endure. In short, the “punishment is the process.” What this means is that the individual involved is put through the often subtly, quiet, grinding power of the Establishment and the structures it uses to enforce conformity. 

He uses the example of nurse Jennifer Mele as a warning about how modern institutions no longer need to secure convictions or even prove wrongdoing to exert control. 

Dragged through disciplinary and legal procedures from May 2024 into 2026, Ms Mele’s case shows how authority works when it feels challenged. Even with a tribunal still outstanding, the very forum designed to properly test evidence, her employer has pressed ahead with disciplinary action that could end her career. As experienced legal voices such as Mr ShenSmith have pointed out, this makes no sense if justice were the aim. 

This is how Establishment power now operates. It builds parallel systems of control through human resource processes, regulatory bodies, professional standards panels that sit alongside and use courts to enforce this control. These systems move slowly, relentlessly, and asymmetrically. Institutions have vast amounts of time, money, and legal teams compared to the everyday citizen. Individuals have stress, fear, reputations to lose, and lives put on hold. Even if the case collapses in the end, the damage is already done.

The message is unmistakable: challenge the prevailing orthodoxy, fall foul of internal rules, or simply become inconvenient, and the machinery will be switched on to grind you down. You may never be found guilty of anything, but you will be exhausted, isolated, and financially and emotionally drained. This creates a powerful deterrent effect, not just for the individual concerned but for everyone watching. People learn to keep their heads down, stay silent, and comply.

This is not accidental. It is how large systems maintain order without overt repression. By normalising endless investigations, delayed justice, and overlapping procedures, the Establishment ensures obedience through fear of the process itself and ensures other citizens know clearly that this can happen to them too, if they don’t comply. Ms Mele’s case is a reminder that freedom is not only lost through laws and verdicts, but through bureaucratic structures designed to grind down those who step out of line. To learn more about how The Insolvency Service have attempted to punish Lighthouse through the process click here.

4. Lighthouse Associates Consensus Feedback

The following feedback was shared with Paul by our associates at Lighthouse in response to yesterday’s daily update.

As we sit with everything that was shared on the call, we’re aware that something has shifted for us at a deep level, not just mentally but in how we understand our own stories, our struggles, and the wider world we’ve been trying to make sense of for years. What’s becoming clearer is that much of what we’ve carried as personal failure, confusion, or weakness didn’t arise in a vacuum, but within systems that trained us to doubt ourselves, to fragment our thinking, and to stay small while calling that normal, responsible, or even virtuous. Many of us are recognising how early this began, how it ran through family life, education, work, places of worship, and institutions we were taught to trust without question, and how difficult it has been to even imagine stepping outside of that framework without fear, guilt, or isolation following close behind.

There’s a growing realisation among us that what we’ve been dealing with isn’t a collection of unrelated problems, but a coherent pattern of overreach and domination that shapes how people think, comply, and relate, all while presenting itself as benevolent, inevitable, or progressive. Seeing this pattern more clearly hasn’t made life feel simpler or lighter; if anything, it has made the world feel more threatening, because once you notice how deeply and broadly the over-control runs, you can’t retreat into old explanations and see things the same way with perceived safety and comfort. Yet at the same time, we’re recognising that clarity brings responsibility, and that responsibility calls us to mature rather than withdraw, to learn how to think more rigorously, more relationally, and more truthfully instead of outsourcing our judgment to systems that benefit from our passivity.

What has stood out strongly is the way faith in Christ reframes all of this, not as an abstract belief layered on top of reality, but as the only place where coherence, meaning, and genuine freedom intersect. We’re seeing more plainly that Christ doesn’t sit alongside these systems as one option among many, but stands in direct contradiction to the larger/macro Kingdom of Darkness cult, not through force, but through truth, sacrifice, and the restoration of human dignity. This has made us reflect on how disconnected we’ve often been from the Body of Christ, not because we rejected it outright, but because fragmentation, suspicion, and distortion made authentic connection feel risky or impossible. Realising that these pressures are not accidental has helped us make sense of why connection, growth, and spiritual maturity have felt so contested.

We’re also becoming more honest with ourselves about how deeply we’ve internalised these dynamics, how instinctively we’ve deferred to authority even when it harmed us, how quickly we’ve distrusted healthy challenges, and how often we’ve mistaken compliance for peace. At the same time, there’s a growing respect for the work required to rebuild from that place, because undoing years of conditioned thinking (often inherited through generations) isn’t quick or comfortable. Instead it demands patience, humility, and perseverance rather than dramatic gestures. What feels different now is that this work no longer feels aimless; it feels grounded, directional, and shared as it actually is in reality.

Perhaps most importantly, we’re recognising that this work doesn’t centre on proving others wrong, but on becoming people who can think clearly, speak accurately, and live in a way that reflects truth rather than fear. That’s sobering, because it leaves us with nowhere to hide, but it’s also strangely steadying, because it places growth back in our own hands under God rather than in the approval of institutions that were never designed to nurture us. We’re grateful for the way these conversations have helped us name what we’ve sensed but couldn’t articulate, and for the sense that we’re not walking this path alone, even when it feels demanding.

As we move forward, we do so with a mixture of gravity and resolve, aware of the cost of this clarity but also convinced that it’s worth paying, trusting that seeking God’s Kingdom first is not an abstract slogan but a daily, disciplined choice that reshapes how we live, relate, and serve. We’re thankful for the leadership, the shared labour, and the growing sense of purpose among us, and we’re committed to continuing this work with integrity, patience, and courage.

God bless Paulie for his work and us all x x x

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