This short article by Victoria Cater gives another common example of what the Watchtower Society (Jehovah’s Witnesses) does to families. This is typical of the kinds of situations I remember and hear about from people who write to me for advice. The first claim – that her father was kicked out for not giving up weekends with his family in order to pioneer (go out door to door for a specified number of hours per month) – is unlikely. You…
Should we be shocked that it leaked in advance? Initial view of John G. Roberts Jr.- down-the-line hard rightwinger on abortion, separation of church and state, and environmental protection. He’s pro-corporate and doesn’t support voter rights much. My sad prediction is that he’ll probably go through. Don’t let the smile fool you – he’s very very smart – and he has the hardest eyes I’ve seen from someone who grew up in Indiana. Watch and learn. They’ll make as many…
I’ve been added to the Progressive Christian Bloggers Network. The blogroll is on the right-hand menu here. As a liberal spirituality-obsessed woman I love this idea. Despite my categorization in some (unnamed) blog directories as an “agnostic,” I have deep religious convictions. In many ways I am a Christian – or at least Christian-leaning. I am encouraged to see at least some serious Christians speaking out on the themes of love, compassion, grace and forgiveness as they relate to the…
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[–06/25/06 – It’s almost a year later! – With this post, I inadvertently stepped into an extended flame war. It’s still going on, if you can believe it. I’m leaving the post up because I don’t like to delete my posts, and in any case I was simply recording the reality of my own experience. As you will see if you care to scroll to the last comment, the situation between Rose and myself was eventually resolved to our mutual…
Article at Watchtower News At Boston Herald Kevin and Nancy Hensley, Jehovah’s Witnesses, had been separated only a couple of weeks when he beat and choked her to death and then dumped her body beside a toilet in the basement – what prosecutor Dennis Collins called the “final indignity.” The couple’s religion teaches that men run the home and women are to be subservient, but while Kevin Hensley was a homebody, family members said Nancy, a working mom, wanted to…