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JWs in the News: Wife Beater

JWs in the News: Wife Beater

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Courant.com | Lockdown In Search For Beating Suspect Joseph Ambrose, 55, is charged with attempted murder, first-degree assault and first-degree kidnapping of his estranged wife. Two of the couple’s four children were home while he beat his wife. Ambrose is a member of the local Canton (Connecticut) congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Police found several rifles at the rented house. Joseph Ambrose was quoted in a story in The Courant in 1996 about the mission of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Those who…

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Transcending JW Abuse

Transcending JW Abuse

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It’s such a familiar narrative now, and it’s almost comforting to me to see more and more people testifying to it – to know that what I observed and experienced is pretty much the same from congregation to congregation, and not just a matter of my own family or community in the Jehovah’s Witnesses: the fantasies of a paradise earth devoid of all but other Jehovah’s Witnesses, the fatalism toward the coming apocalypse and the lack of engagement in the…

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Another Lovely JW “Elder”

Another Lovely JW “Elder”

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Have You Seen My Mother It was the mid 60’s when Bryan, at age two, was abducted by his father. Bryan was, stealthily, spirited away and taken from Town to Town by his father, keeping their whereabouts unknown. His mother, at nineteen and heartbroken, felt powerless. Raised a Jehovah’s Witness by his father, who was an Elder for decades, Bryan was taught at a very young age that his mother was demonized and that she had been physically abusive to…

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Jehovah’s Witness Elders

Jehovah’s Witness Elders

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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…

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JWS in the News – Family murders

JWS in the News – Family murders

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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…

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July 8th Robbie Benson

July 8th Robbie Benson

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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…

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