Lord David Hacking,
(CC: Belinda Hacking, Douglas Hacking, Alexander Hacking, Leo Hacking)
We at Lighthouse Global are writing with deep concern about your youngest son, Christian Hacking—his wellbeing, his conduct, and the damage being done through his self-described “very amateur” journalism (particularly while presenting himself publicly as a Christian).
It would not be a surprise to us if you knew this already; we believe there is something very deeply, deeply wrong with your son. There is a level of belligerent stupidity and denial of reality in him that leaves us aghast. We fear for his own wellbeing. Especially when such stupidity is present in someone who claims to be a servant of God.
We are therefore very concerned for his immediate family, whom he has said himself he is struggling to look after —as well as the entire wider Hacking family. This is why we felt it important to copy you all into this letter.
This is a letter we hoped we would never need to write. To be frank, it is embarrassing to be forced to appeal to a physically grown human being’s elderly father.
We can imagine you have had to clean up your son’s messes many, many times before.
He has refused to take any responsibility for his own problems and therefore we must now come to you.
We are appealing to you as his father, and as an arbitrator, to intervene—for your son’s sake, and for the sake of others who he has harmed (and may further harm).
What This Letter Covers
- Our specific concerns regarding your son Christian Hacking
- An overview of the damage he has already caused to the Lighthouse Global Christian community
- The damage we want to prevent him from causing (to himself and to others)
- His abuse of his role as a supposed journalist
- His inadequate support of his own wife and children
- The reproach he has brought on the wider Hacking family
- Our specific requests for your intervention
- Further letters we intend to send to you
Context: Christian Hacking’s Deeply Concerning Behaviour
This is the basic context for our deep concern for Christian Hacking and his behaviour that we share with everyone, however we recommend that you click the link below for further and more detailed background and context.
- Christian Hacking presented himself to Lighthouse Global as a “very amateur” independent Christian journalist, and we initially aimed to support him as a brother or sister in Christ.
- Lighthouse later concluded that Hacking had a vested interest in demonising us through toxic framing, needing Lighthouse to appear as a “cult” and Paul S. Waugh as a “cult leader”, despite what is extensive contrary evidence.
- We believe this framing served Hacking’s amateur journalistic ambitions by creating a sensational “big scoop”, even if misleading, at our and Paul’s expense.
- Due to Hacking’s deceptive intent, lack of professionalism, and limited audience or reach, we decided we could not work with Hacking.
- Hacking sent Paul a set of 150 questions. These questions were biased, cynical, self righteous, and prosecutorial, demanding answers, despite Paul stating (26 Jan 2026, via audio message) that we could not work with Hacking.
- At minimum this is a petty vendetta, and possibly signs of being a “media plant” connected to the BBC. Both Hacking and Hacking’s father David have praised the BBC.
- If Hacking is smearing Christian communities as “cults” for personal agenda rather than genuine investigation, it must be challenged, hence our case study and linking it to the “Judas Syndrome” educational series.
- This issue is larger than one individual. It is part of a wider, orchestrated “Establishment” strategy to brand close knit communities, and even businesses or parties, as alleged cults to control narratives and ostracise opposition.
For further context and background, you can click here for an outline of recent events.
We strongly urge you to read this context before proceeding further as it details how your son has conducted himself in recent months.
In short, Lighthouse Global were the target of the biggest attack on an organised group of Christians by the BBC in all its history.
Your son stepped into this situation claiming to help, with great toxic foolishness and hubris —thinking he could use it and us for his own inflated and amateur journalistic career.
We know that both yourself and your son adore and praise the BBC. We implore you to put aside your own prejudicial feelings about them, to pay very careful attention to the objective facts, where your son has tragically failed to do so at great cost to himself and his entire family.
Since our introduction to our investigation of your son was published on the 22nd of April 2026, we have published three open letters to Christian, including an invitation (24th April 2026) to a live debate with our CEO and founder, Paul S. Waugh.
Your son has responded to none of these.
For ease of reference, the open letters are:
All our findings regarding your son and your family can be found on this single dedicated website we have developed.
Our Serious Concerns Regarding Your Son, Christian Hacking
In our experience, your son has shown traits that ought to deeply concern any right minded human being.
We believe you have not been made aware of these issues by him or anyone else. Therefore we are bringing them to your attention in the hope of your arbitration and intervention.
These issues have been serious enough that we have had to take legal advice, issue a cease and desist, and are praying for him constantly.
1) Ulterior Motives
Your son came to the Lighthouse community in 2025; presenting himself as a Christian brother who wanted to help and support us.
Yet what he has published about us has defamed us, and has compounded the serious damage and destruction we have already endured for the last five years from coordinated and malicious attacks on us, fuelled by malevolent and destructive individuals.
This may seem very difficult to believe about your son, Lord Hacking. However, we have all of the proof and evidence to demonstrate these issues…
2) Abuse of Vulnerable Christians
Your son claims to be a “servant” of Jesus Christ, and an anti-abortion activist.
Our current understanding is that you do not hold the same religious beliefs as he claims to, but that is not our focus here.
NB: We believe that your son does not reflect the true loving spirit of Jesus Christ. And if that has affected your view of Christ and Christianity, we would sincerely encourage you to not look to your son as a model of Christianity. (We will share more details and insights on this in due course).
Your son claims to be a “voice for the voiceless” (i.e., unborn children).
Yet he has attempted to smear and damage the reputations—and therefore the lives—of vulnerable Associates of Lighthouse, many of whom are desperately trying to find their voice amid heinous attacks from the UK government and the BBC.
Your son has presented himself as a Christian brother to the Lighthouse community. Yet his conduct has been disrespectful, dismissive, arrogant, deceptive, and full of toxic hubris.
Some examples in brief include:
- Completely disrupting a public gallery of the court case he was allegedly covering
- Violating the privacy of individual Lighthouse Associates in numerous ways — including by asking deeply personal questions about family abuse; specifically sexual abuse that some of our community have suffered in their childhood
- Demanding that our CEO Paul S. Waugh answer 150 cynical and aggressive questions from your son — while Paul has been and still is chronically and devastatingly ill in South Africa
- Publishing his own articles about a live court case that is still in proceedings —despite being warned and cautioned not to in order to protect the safety of the defendants involved
Christian has colluded with nefarious and criminal characters. During his time supposedly “investigating” Lighthouse, he solicited insights and advice from a man with a criminal record who has tried to attack and destroy Lighthouse; Jon Breen, amongst others.
This is an individual who has doxed the very children of our CEO, Paul S. Waugh.
Lord Hacking, you have openly stood for the protection of children in the House of Lords, even in your final day.
Yet your son has taken counsel from an extremely unstable, disturbed man who has no qualms with exposing the location of young vulnerable children on the internet.
Why is your son attacking and harming the vulnerable rather than defending them, which he claims to do?
Your son has frankly demonstrated, at best, unloving, and at worst, psychopathic traits toward the community of Christians at Lighthouse.
As a result of his behaviour, one of our Associates issued a cease and desist letter to your son personally in February earlier this year, 2026.
This is how seriously we have taken his behaviour and yet he continues to ignore the warnings we have presented to him.
3) Absurd Lack of Self-Awareness
Your son has, on more than one occasion, given unsolicited and unfounded financial “advice” to Sukh Singh.
For context: Sukh is one of three Associates who has been (and still is) in a gruelling court case that has cost immense time, energy, and mental/emotional health—on top of orchestrated attacks we have all suffered, including death threats after the BBC broadcast a falsified, propagandised programme about us.
At the same time, your own son has a fledgling business that appears barely able to provide for his own family.
Yet he advised Sukh to “get a job,” and told our CEO, Paul Waugh, that Associates within Lighthouse “need to get jobs.” This was not framed as a suggestion by your son; it was delivered as an instruction.
Put plainly: your son is not only unaware of his own self, he has acted like a possessive and controlling parent toward grown men and women at Lighthouse.
Why does your son feel so entitled to dispense his own toxic ‘advice’ while ignoring his own desperate situation?
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? Matthew 7:3-4
4) Causing Damage to the Hacking Family
Lord Hacking, we believe that your son is behaving in reckless, immature, and very destructive ways that are and/or will cause a lot of harm to his own wife and children.
As stated in the section above, he is not only barely able to take care of them, he is projecting his own inadequacies and insufficiencies onto others, whom he has absolutely no business or right to instruct.
We believe he may be putting his family in financial jeopardy – and that it may not be the first time he has done this.
Beyond this, Lord Hacking, we believe he is bringing the wider Hacking family into disrepute.
This is a common trait with predatory pseudo journalists; they are willing to judge others with the swiftness of their keyboard, but refuse to address their own lives.
He has exposed himself as an embarrassment of an individual who occupies his time with trivial and meaningless issues, while pretending to be a Christian journalist.
In fact we have strong reason to suspect that he has deeply unresolved issues with yourself as his father which we will address in future communications with you. This is based on both things he has said in the past about authority figures, and the way he has inappropriately and psychopathically treated Paul S. Waugh.
We at Lighthouse have spent decades studying human pathology. We see a common yet tragic trend in your son; projecting unresolved father and rejection issues onto a strong male authority figure.
5) Ineptitude (and Refusal of Basic Correction)
He appears unable and/or unwilling to receive basic corrections in his journalistic work.
This is not about sophisticated editorial judgment. It is about repeated basic spelling errors that were pointed out to him multiple times—yet he continues to publish them.
One example: Sukh Singh (whom your son befriended under false pretences), pointed out that Christian could not even spell our organisation’s name correctly in previous articles he wrote.
This is after:
- knowing Sukh for over a year
- being around our team for several days over multiple months in court
- receiving daily emails from us with the word “Lighthouse” appearing repeatedly
Yet despite corrections from Sukh, he still spells the organisation name incorrectly.
This is not pedantic—it raises a basic but vital question: why is a man in his late 30s unable (or unwilling) to take basic correction?
Especially someone who claims to be a journalist?
6) Triviality and Lack of Cognisance
While we have been holding your son publicly accountable for the damage he has caused, he has refused to respond to any of our open letters.
Instead, he has chosen to write about domestic and social trivialities (e.g., the Dartford bridge, spilt milk under his couch). He has people paying to read this and spending their precious little time and energy on his trivialities.
He is clearly aware of our publications—he posted one of our articles about him on the 24th of April 2026.
So why does he refuse to respond to substantive claims and serious issues, while claiming to be a champion for the voiceless?
Has he previously shown such signs of selective reality, irrational avoidance, denial of truth, delusional thinking, including grandiosity or escapism?
7) Lack of Wise Counsel & Attacking Paul S. Waugh
We understand Christian is the youngest and does not appear close to his siblings.
We are gravely concerned that he has no one wise, prudent, and caring in his close circle who is advising him well as he navigates these matters.
We cannot otherwise explain how and why he is behaving in such deplorable ways.
For example, despite every open letter and every invitation to reconcile and repent, he has not even read our addresses to him.
Yet he carries on writing about trivial, mundane issues — no one is coming to him to show him what a dangerous path he is walking.
During the court case your son claimed he was covering, he asked out loud, in a public gallery during the hearing, where our CEO Paul S. Waugh was.
Paul founded Lighthouse over 20 years ago, to solve the most chronic underlying problems we face as humanity.
Mentoring and coaching sits at the heart of our work as an organisation, as it ought to in every other organisation, family and community worldwide.
Paul has been chronically ill and suffering the devastating effects from the co-ordinated and heinous attacks on him by the UK government and BBC.
Despite this, Paul extended himself to offer to speak with your son. In the last five years, Paul has not given this kind of opportunity to anyone, especially someone claiming they are a journalist.
Your son ignored this offer for a period of months.
We strongly suspect that long before your son had the opportunity to speak with Paul, he had already determined to fabricate a “cult leader” persona for his journalistic ambitions.
Specifically, so that he could build his career with a sensationalist smear on a Christian community.
We are therefore and rightfully concerned he will try to smear and damage other Christian communities, as he tried to do with us.
This will only bring further repercussions and scrutiny on himself and you, his family.
When he did respond, Christian stated overtly that he did not want to be mentored by Paul.
No one offered to mentor your son. Not least Paul who had no interest in mentoring him.
This was yet another example of his unwillingness to receive correction, and help and support which he so desperately needs.
We believe your daughter Belinda would be an ideal starting point for your son to get help, given her specialities in cognitive behaviour and communications.
On one occasion last year, in a rare moment of honesty, your son confessed that there are some major aspects of his life that are lacking:
“in my quieter moments I’ve envied their fellowship, their submission, their shared struggle, their resolve for truth, and questioned whether I was somehow missing out on a life deeper and richer than the one I now live.”
Lord Hacking, your son is clearly in desperate need of addressing some chronic underlying issues. We do not know what they are. We doubt he knows either.
But what is abundantly clear is that your son should spend less time writing about others and invading their privacy, but instead focus on his own personal needs.
Your son needs to have people around him who will be honest with him and show him the heinous errors he is making.
This is someone who himself has four young children. Therefore as a son to you and as a father to his own children, we believe urgent intervention is required. This person is unhinged, unaware and uncontrollably causing destruction to himself and others.
We urge you to heed this warning sir. It appears your son takes no caution to any such warnings.
Our Appeal to You to Arbitrate
Lord Hacking, your son appears desperate in every way: personally, relationally, entrepreneurially, financially, and most of all spiritually.
We have had to hold him publicly accountable to prevent further damage.
But we are grieved that he is not learning from—or even recognising—his mistakes.
We fear he will cause further harm to himself, to others, and likely to you and your family.
Therefore, we are appealing to you to speak to your son and to intervene.
Specifically, We Ask You to Help Your Son:
- see the errors of his ways
- get his own house in order
- correct every falsehood, half-truth and lie he has published about Lighthouse Global and its associates
- repent for the harm he has caused to the Christian community of Lighthouse Global
- understand the damage his journalistic venture is causing (to himself and others)
- seek wise counsel (ideally Godly counsel)
- receive whatever psychological support he may need —be it therapy / counselling to address these issues
- take full responsibility to support his family financially
Further Issues of Concern to Address
Your son has also (unwittingly) exposed matters regarding yourself that we intend to address.
These matters are very serious given your son’s supposed stance to protect the vulnerable and stand for Christ. He has elected to interview you about your final speech in the House of Lords. Yet he has not once, from what we can see, chosen to interview you objectively about far more serious matters of public interest. It appears that your son will not conduct such an interview in line with his selective reality distortion.
Your son claims to stand for the vulnerable, but only in an area that he can make a name for himself, i.e. abortion.
Your son has also developed a morbid curiosity with cults. And specifically, the BBC’s false and malicious portrayal of Lighthouse as a cult.
Therefore, as part of holding your son accountable to the standards he professes, in the coming days and weeks, we will ask you questions related to:
- Christian’s unstable financial position —why he is not able to support his family sufficiently and instead create sensationalist, falsified articles about others instead
- Why you praise the BBC (an organisation widely known for protecting child abusers, misleading the public, and harassing elderly women to force licence payments and fines)
- What links your family has to the Freemasons (we understand your great-great-grandfather, Joshua Hacking, had strong connections to the Masons). Given this is a known cult, we would like to understand what connection—if any—your family has to the Masonic cult.
We look forward to hearing your response.
With regards,
The Lighthouse Global community
Related articles:
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Open Letter Part I: A Response To Amateur Journalist Christian Hacking: An Education on Defamation and Destruction 
Open Letter Part II to Amateur Journalist Christian Hacking — False Allegiance to Christ or the Establishment? 
Open Letter Part III: Why Lighthouse Global Associate Sukh Singh Issued a Cease & Desist to Amateur Journalist Christian Hacking
This open letter presents a candid, but compassionate message to Lord David Hacking. It was a great act of betrayal by Christian Hacking, who I understood and trusted to be someone who called themselves a Christian brother wanting to help.
Yet despite this, I and we pray for him and his family. I really help that Christian Hacking’s father and family is able to help. He’s fallen short in the big things and that is causing him as well as his family immense damage.
Not only this, but it’s also the small things. Whilst it may be seen as an outdated view today, I am of the belief that journalists should have near-faultless spelling, punctuation and grammar. However, in Christian Hacking’s case, it’s more than just spelling ability that’s lacking, it’s a hubristic resistance to all attempted correction of his mistakes. It’s the small things that often reveal the much bigger things.
I hope that this letter will be a catalyst for an effective intervention that will be in the best interests of Christian Hacking and his family, especially his children.
This letter actually represents so much. We are having to contact Christian Hacking’s father and family, because of the apparent lack of mentorship, coaching and counselling in Christian Hacking’s earlier life. This is why Lighthouse has so much work to do… because we are heavily involved in developing human beings where we grossly lack that development, nurture and dare I say… love. Especially the love of Christ.
To be frank, I am not expecting major changes here but I am certainly hoping and praying for it. I really hope this brings the Hacking family together, not only around Christian, but around each other. With Lord Hacking being removed from the House of Lords recently, I feel this is even more pressing for their family to be committed to supporting and building one another. There is so much for Christian Hacking to not just correct, but for him to receive urgently needed help in many areas of his life.
I’m again, very saddened about this, especially for his wife and children. I really hope that this is a catalyst for Christian Hacking to regenerate. And if not, I believe firmly it will be of great value to the Body of Christ to be healed from such kinds of damage caused by him under the name of Christ.
This is an incredibly significant and important letter not only for Lord David Hacking and Christian Hacking, but for their wider family, including Christian’s wife and children.
If Christian is unable to address his own issues before focusing on others, then the next appropriate step would be to raise these concerns with his parent. While this may feel difficult for a physically grown adult, there does appear to be unresolved trauma that many of us can relate to and have also sought help for, not least through Christ.
I sincerely hope and pray that Lord David Hacking receives this as a necessary warning, and is able to recognise the care, compassion, and concern behind it for Christian’s wellbeing, and that it prompts timely and appropriate action.
May God be with us all, especially Christian Hacking and his family. Amen.
That quote “in my quieter moments I’ve envied their fellowship, their submission, their shared struggle, their resolve for truth, and questioned whether I was somehow missing out on a life deeper and richer than the one I now live.”
is so revealing to me.
It’s like the mask is slipping and he’s revealing what he wants to say but can’t without compromising himself or whatever. It reads to me as honest, and betrays him and all the subsequent ways he’s behaved. Why write that otherwise?
This whole thing is so heartbreaking and concerning. Praying for the whole Hacking Family to resolve this as quickly as possible
This open letter expresses deep concern for Christian Hacking’s wellbeing and for the wellbeing of his entire family. I pray that Christian comes to recognise his wrongdoings and receives the help he needs to grow in self awareness and overcome his challenges.
His children need someone who is grounded and who has the humility to acknowledge and correct his mistakes rather than blaming others.
I know that I myself need to continue improving, and I believe this applies to many of us. I therefore hope that his father and extended family can support him in receiving what he may not have received during his upbringing, and that he becomes able to honestly reflect on himself, remain open to genuine change, and through that become a more whole and balanced person.
This is a letter of concern as well as accountability and protection for what is happening to those at Lighthouse. It’s not just for Christian but for the whole Hacking family and this represents an opportunity for them to come together and support and help one another to make things right. Not just with Lighthouse but with one another as well. I pray that Christian Hacking can and will be supported by them and that they use this well. The alternative is that they do very much the opposite from that. There is the adage that the apple does not fall far from the tree and perhaps that is one reason we are seeing from Christian the things that we are. The test here is whether and to what degree they go to and start with Christ, something that I dearly hope they will.
May God bless the Hacking family as there appears to be a lot of love and support needed.
We pray that David Hacking will see and feel the gravity of this situation and the extremely poor choices his son continues to make, and step up and hold his son, Christian Hacking, accountable. It is crucial for David Hacking to see the responsibility he has, not only for his son and family, but to intervene for the Body of Christ, so we prevent any further damage to Christ’s bride.
The abuse of Christians is getting me, so I’m glad his family is being made aware i he’s not willing to see his errors. We need a cleaning up and cleaning out of the Body of Christ, it’s too important to allow corruption from within. This work is so needed.
This is a sad situation that a letter like this needs to be written in the first place. I truly hope that good comes from this and I pray for the Hacking family. I’ve learnt from this work over all the years that fruits come from their relevant tree. So if there is any unhealthy part of a fruit, the tree would have that unhealthiness too. I hope that Mr Hacking can help his son to repent, apologise and to learn from his behaviour. I pray for the family 🙏
What really hit me from reading this open letter is the love and care behind it. It is a call for something to be done to help a proclaiming brother in Christ. Not as he is doing to Paul and Lighthouse, it’s the wanting to help Christian, reaching out to his blood family.
I pray that his family take this letter seriously and they reach out to him and help him. His own family needs help: his wife and children. As you have shared, he has said to Sukh and the others in Lighthouse to go and get jobs. Why is he not seeing this for himself? I pray for Christian and for his family.
There is an urgency to help one another, not to try to destroy.
Thank you so much for writing and sharing this letter, helping to open my eyes by teaching me how I can do more to help my brothers and sisters in Christ. God bless us all…Amen