Higher Education is Reason to Remove an Elder
Circuit Overseer (far left) meets with body of elders to decide fate of elder (far right) whose daughters are pursuing higher education. Jehovah’s Witnesses have created an instructional video on how to deal with an elder who has family member(s) who are pursuing an educational qualification in a third level institution such as a technical […]
An Unprecedented Gilead Graduation
The graduation of the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead took place on Saturday, March 14, 2020. This was an unprecedented event because it took place without an audience at the educational center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Patterson, New York. Instead, due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, delegates viewed the program via a live stream, using […]
It’s Never Too Late to Break Free
The following life experience was originally posted by a retired Jehovah’s Witness elder on the exJW sub-reddit. It is reproduced here with permission. My parents became Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1958, when I was just one year old. Although I went through the teenage ‘rebellious period’, I remained a member of the religion. At the age […]
Forbidding Education
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever” – Mahatma Gandhi Jehovah’s Witnesses wouldn’t think too much of Gandhi’s quote. They believe that the end of the world could be tomorrow, yet most live as if it won’t be. They believe too that they are going to live […]
Influencing A Grandchild’s Career Path?
David and Gwen Cartwright are two elderly Jehovah’s Witnesses from the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Their life story is told in the March 15 2015 Study Edition of the Watchtower, under the heading, We Found A More Rewarding Career. A synopsis of David & Gwen’s life story Both David & Gwen were born in the mid-1940’s. The […]
A Response to Grandad
The following transcript is taken from Facebook. It is a brief conversation via Private Message between a child and grandad. The grandad and his wife have shunned this child’s parents for at least two years. This has had more of a negative impact than even the grandfather can imagine. The child’s response is heartbreaking. Grandad: […]