JW Child Abuse is being developed as a reference site for the sharing of resources and court documents for civil and criminal cases involving Jehovah’s Witnesses. By sharing legislative and legal information, they provide survivors of abuse and their supporters a pathway to change. This site is designed with the intention of presenting only facts […]
Many of the policies and teachings of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses can be damaging to existing Jehovah’s Witnesses or their families. The aim of the site “The Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses under the Spotlight” is to draw attention to these policies and teachings.
The Looking Glass shares some revealing and interesting quotes from historical and current publications of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society as well as provides links and downloads to the sources.
The Open Minds Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organization, established to raise awareness of and educate on the dangers of coercion and coercive control within our societies, reducing its impact, and in the long term, eliminating it altogether.
Reasonable Faith aims to provide in the public arena an intelligent, articulate, and uncompromising yet gracious Christian perspective on the most important issues concerning the truth of the Christian faith today,
Ex-JW.com is designed to publish the truth about the background and the teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses since their late 19th Century beginnings and expose the facts about their changing doctrines and teachings. They also provide a history of the Watchtower organization and its leaders.
Based on research and theory by Robert Jay Lifton, Margaret Singer, Edgar Schein, Louis Jolyon West, and others who studied brainwashing in Maoist China as well as cognitive dissonance theory by Leon Festinger, Steven Hassan developed the BITE Model to describe the specific methods that cults use to recruit and maintain control over people. “BITE” stands for Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional control.
JW FAQ contrasts what JW.ORG says on their website Jehovah’s Witnesses believe with what they actually believe.
Advocates for Jehovah’s Witness Reform on Blood provides education, counseling, and support to individuals, qualified experts, groups and organizations advocating Watchtower Blood reforms, and establishing informed consent among the JW population.
Barbara Anderson was a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses from 1954 through 1997. She worked at Watchtower’s headquarters in Brooklyn, NY, from 1982 to 1992 where during her last four years there, she researched the movement’s official history (published in 1993) and did research as well as wrote a number of articles for their Awake! magazine. […]