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…
July 8th is the date of my first kiss, the date of many firsts. I realized that this date is always one of reflection – a marker of where I am. This year – I feel itchy, like I would like to do something a little wild and different. Well, I’ve got a new book to read… My first kiss was in 1978 on July 8th- and the boy I kissed in Montreal while attending the International Assembly of Jehovah’s…
See my previous blog entry for a reading of Michael Jackson’s psychology from the perspective of a former Jehovah’s Witness. mj conflict jw Interesting article from Silent Lambs. In 1987, it was publicly announced that Michael Jackson was no longer a Jehovah’s Witness. However, the recent news articles say that he is. Jesse Jackson is saying that although Michael Jackson is a Jehovah’s Witness, they pray together (a “nondenominational prayer”). That is SO not allowed! I’ve been in contact with…
My advice to recovering JWs has been translated into Hungarian! Here it is
Testimony and advice from another former JW
There is something inherent in controlling authoritarian communities like the JWs that helps to produce – and serves in some ways to protect – sexual predators of all kinds and, for some reason, especially pedophiles. There was at least one such in my own congregation, who described me as a “perfect little doll” to my parents and who gave me the permanent creeps. He was in his seventies before any charges were made, but I knew deep in my heart…