The Governing Body Reframes Education as a Personal Choice
Governing Body update #5, August 22nd, 2025 with Governing Body member David Splane Article Written By: Miss Usato, Published: August 22nd, 2025 Jehovah’s Witnesses emphasize spiritual education above all else. While basic schooling is considered necessary, the organization’s literature has long warned against higher education, to the point of removal and disowning if pursued, until […]
Baptizing in the name of…?
Illustrations of baptism in the Jehovah’s Witness Organization, collage created by Miss Usato Published by: Miss Usato, Written by: Larchwood on June 23th, 2025 “Go Therefore and Make Disciples, Baptizing Them in The Name of The Father, the Son, and the Organization.” Is that how the scripture goes? This article is written by Larchwood, a […]
It’s Not Love: Pt 3- The Struggles of Marriages and the Elderly in the Jehovah’s Witness Organization
Part Three: Marriages and the elderly Published By: Miss Usato on April 20th, 2025 In this article, ‘It’s not Love’ part 3 – Marriages and the elderly, we explore how the Jehovah’s Witness organization enforces strict expectations on marriages and their elderly members. Behind the image of spiritual unity lies a pattern of emotional neglect, […]
Can You Be a Gay Jehovah’s Witness?
Jehovah’s Witnesses cannot prevent their members from being homosexual, but they are forbidden from being in a homosexual relationship. When it comes to homosexuality, Jehovah’s Witnesses make a distinction between a person’s feelings or attractions and one’s actions and lifestyle. Jehovah’s Witnesses’ stance on homosexuality comes from their beliefs on the Bible and their interpretation […]
Luke Evans: The Boy Who Found Acceptance
Evans writes about his personal journey growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness, grappling with faith, family, and personal identity, particularly regarding his sexuality. Luke Evans was raised in a Jehovah’s Witness household where faith dictated every aspect of his life. His new book is a deeply personal story discussing his religious, sexual, and emotional struggles […]
Pornography: Johnny Young’s Confession
Pornography: How two elders discuss a penitent who has confessed to viewing porn If you spend enough time around Jehovah’s Witnesses, you’ll discover that pornography is an oft discussed topic, particularly between elders. It’s a problem that raises it’s ugly head like an ill-timed erection. The problem permeates every level of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ organization: […]
Behind the Mask as a Jehovah’s Witness
A detailed article on how the harmful concealment of Masking occurs and how Jehovah’s Witnesses have had to use this tactic to survive within the Organization. Interviewed is Anna Hendricks, Former Jehovah’s Witness and advocate.
Life as a Jehovah’s Witness – The Best Life Ever
WARNING – This article contains coarse and sexually explicit language. The following showed up on my Facebook news-feed and was not written by me. Nonetheless, it is a vivid and terse description of life growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness. And if it didn’t happen to me, it happened to a kid I/you knew in […]
Netherlands: Sander Huls Leaves Jehovah’s Witnesses and Shares His Experience
Originally published on NPO Radio 1 on March 3, 2021 They don’t vote, don’t celebrate birthdays, refuse blood transfusions, but are best known for their ‘field service’; the foot in the door. The Netherlands has about 30,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses. Sander Huls was one of them, but left the religious group about 7 years ago. Sander shares his experiences on […]