The Friday Column: Shunning – a toxic practice in which EVERYONE ultimately loses
My fellow JWsurvey team members have written extensively on the Australian Royal Commission and Geoffrey Jackson’s testimony in particular. But
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Royal Commission findings: Watchtower policies place JW children “at significant risk of sexual abuse”
The summer of 2015 saw The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse hold an eight-day hearing focusing
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The Friday Column: “Let the dead bury their dead”
In light of the horrendous terror attacks in Paris last week, Facebook users received the option to update their profile
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The Friday Column: Doctrine and loyalty is paramount to the Governing Body, whatever the cost
When I was a very young boy, my grandfather died. I don’t know much about his life, aside from the
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The Friday Column: Why Speak Out?
Oftentimes, when speaking to friends and acquaintances I am asked, “Why? Why do you care what the Witnesses do? Why
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The silent majority speaks: Results of the 2014 Global Survey now available
2014 was a big year for Jehovah’s Witnesses, and not just because it marked 100 years of the “short period
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12 things we learned from Geoffrey Jackson’s testimony at the Royal Commission
If you are one of the many current and former Jehovah’s Witnesses who spent much of last month glued to
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Following the “Return to Jehovah” release, is the net closing on inactive ones?
A leaked Watchtower letter in Polish addressed to all elders in Poland has asked for details of Witnesses who have
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2015 convention interviewer praises parents who shunned their kid
It is a predicament that all too many visitors to this website, myself included, find themselves in: believing Jehovah’s Witness
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Brave and inspirational schoolgirl Brie takes internet by storm with viral video
Chances are if you’re reading this you are one of the 536,000 (and counting!) people who has already seen a
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Did Jehovah’s Witness shunning drive young Brit towards Islamic extremist radicalization?
UK newspapers are reporting that a young British man, who has been found guilty of plotting to behead a soldier,
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The Bethel “Happy” video – unauthorized shenanigans or calculated propaganda stunt?
In Spring of last year I helped organize a group of former Jehovah’s Witnesses from various countries to film our
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“Je suis Charlie” – Why events in Paris should be a wake-up call for Jehovah’s Witnesses
I was in Zurich making my way home from a series of Jehovah’s Witness-related gatherings in Europe when I first
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