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The Friday Column: Redwood’s Reflections

June 8, 2018June 8, 2018 Mark O'Donnell 2978 Viewschild indoctrination, future of the watchtower society, geoffrey jackson, jehovahs witnesses, the friday column, undue influence, Watch Tower Society, watchtower

A memory appeared on my Facebook page. from four years ago today, June 8, 2014. This was my very first

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The Friday Column: Are you still in the cage?

April 21, 2017April 22, 2017 Covert Fade 4799 ViewsAlice Cheshire, breaking free, freedom, jehovahs witnesses, mind control, the friday column, therapy, undue influence, watchtower

Growing up within the JW world, particularly as a woman, you got used to boundaries, to barriers, and to being

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The Friday Column: Outside the bubble

July 15, 2016July 16, 2016 Covert Fade 2610 ViewsJames Sequoia, jehovahs witnesses, the friday column, watchtower

Last month marked three years since I resigned as Ministerial Servant, tossed out my neck-tie and walked away from the

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The Friday Column: To the newly shunned

July 1, 2016July 1, 2016 Covert Fade 4048 Views#worstconventionever, Jehovah's Witness shunning, shunning, the friday column, watchtower

Like many ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses, members of my family will soon be attending the 2016 convention entitled “Remain Loyal to Jehovah.”

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The Friday Column: JW Survey needs YOU!

May 20, 2016May 20, 2016 Covert Fade 5306 Viewsactivism, the friday column

Would you like to help make a difference? We are looking to expand our voluntary writing team in order to

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The Friday Column: Why I don’t want to destroy Watchtower

May 13, 2016May 13, 2016 Covert Fade 4750 Viewsaustralian royal commission, blood, bloody policy, child abuse, Jehovah's Witnesses blood transfusions, Jehovah's Witnesses Child Abuse, jehovahs witnesses, royal comission, shunning, the friday column

I don’t want to bring down the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. That might have a couple of you blinking

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The Friday Column: Leave no man behind

May 6, 2016October 2, 2017 Covert Fade 4953 Viewsactivism, freedom, friends, jehovahs witnesses, JWfacts, raymond franz, the friday column, watchtower

I had brothers when I was a Jehovah’s Witness. They were not related to me. We shared no blood. Neither

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Doomsday Predictions Mental health The Friday Column 

The Friday Column: “And a new Earth.”

February 19, 2016 Covert Fade 5243 ViewsAfter Armageddon, jehovahs witnesses, New System, paradise, the friday column, watchtower, wirrow

Every once in a while, I’m asked why I bother keeping up with current events in the world of Jehovah’s

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The Friday Column: Everyone makes mistakes – except Watchtower

December 18, 2015 Covert Fade 5411 Viewsapostle peter, beth sarim, child abuse, jehovahs witnesses, jonah, mistakes, organ transplants, the friday column, watchtower

Everyone makes mistakes. The Bible characters certainly did. Think of the Apostle Peter, denying Jesus three times on the night

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