Category: JW Teachings
An open letter to the Governing Body
January 10th, 2011, 9 Comments
By “Brother Siam” Editor’s Note: This article was originally published as a post on the JWN forum. With the kind permission of its author, we are republishing it here in a slightly edited format. [Here is a link to the original version.] “Brother Siam” is an active Jehovah’s Witness living on the West Coast of [...]
“Dubs for Dummies”
December 31st, 2010, No Comments
By “Farkel” Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Worldwide Brotherhood of Jehovah’s Witnesses™, There has been much public interest in our beliefs lately, so we have prepared a very brief summary of our core beliefs in a new pamphlet which you may offer to interested persons. Hopefully, this pamphlet will generate enough interest with honest-hearted [...]
Douglas’s Story
December 15th, 2010, No Comments
By Gordon Smith As ill-luck would have it, I was born in 1964 to an unyielding Witness father who, as I was to discover, was intent on proving himself to be more holy than Swiss cheese. If that weren’t enough to be getting on with, my two older siblings and I regularly suffered the effects [...]
Watchtower “breakdown” on the Highway to Paradise
December 2nd, 2010, 1 Comment
By Terry Walstrom All of us at one time or another have owned an automobile that was a real lemon! While the car may have been shiny, stylish and totally cool-looking – the problem was it was a piece of crap. Repair, after repair, after repair! A never-ending spiral of maintenance kept it in the shop more [...]
An Interesting Twist in a Child Custody Case
November 10th, 2010, No Comments
By Richard E. Kelly Although a bit apprehensive at first, I was recently asked to help a non-JW mom in a child custody hearing. Due to the story of my own childhood, Growing Up in Mama’s Club – A Childhood Perspective of Jehovah’s Witnesses, she believed I could help convince the court that her three [...]
Going to the Public Talk
November 6th, 2010, No Comments
The following YouTube video, while presented with a huge dose of satire, nails the basic concepts of attending a local Kingdom Hall’s “public talk.” Written and produced by an Australian observer of Jehovah’s Witnesses and their unique religious practices, this little bit of expanded reality should bring a chuckle or two to anyone who has actually [...]
BBC goes to a Kingdom Hall
October 3rd, 2010, No Comments
“The One Show,” is a magazine show with topical reports, features and interviews from around the UK. It’s very similar to ABC’s “Night Line” or “Entertainment Tonight” in the USA. “The One Show” appears on the BBC1-TV network at 7:00 PM after local news. After several stories about the deaths of faithful Jehovah’s Witnesses who [...]
Raymond Franz, RIP
June 2nd, 2010, 10 Comments
It was announced this morning (June 2nd) that Raymond Franz passed away due to a stroke injuries he suffered on May 30, 2010. Mr. Franz was a much-loved and respected Christian all of his life. As active and dedicated Jehovah’s Witnesses, he and his wife served for over 40 years in various assignments, primarily in [...]
The Watchtower redefines a “generation”
February 27th, 2010, 7 Comments
The new definition of a “generation” should also make you rethink the whole issue of the Watchtower Society’s credibility and truthfulness to its own followers.
Jehovah’s Witnesses and Bible Study
November 3rd, 2009, 15 Comments
Many former JWs will admit that one reason they left the Organization was because they actually did finally read the Bible.
