The author’s hope is that this novel, in its own way, will act as an informative causeway over the far-reaching waters of the authoritatively minded WatchTower Bible and Tract Society. Read more…

Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again. Read more…

Jehovah’s Witnesses loudly proclaim that among all the Christian movements in Germany during the dark days of the Third Reich, only their German brethren stood solidly against Nazism… Read more…

Anyone who has regard for the future can only view the destruction of a child’s innocence as one of the most heinous crimes in the human lexicon of brutality. When this occurs in the family home and is perpetrated by a parent with an obvious duty of care, the betrayal and it’s consequences are immeasurable. Read more…

Broadly researched, meticulously documented, passionately written. This book shows that the Gentile Times did not begin in 607 BCE and how the Watchtower Society has tried to hide the facts. Read more…

“The public needs to be warned,” says ex-Jehovah’s Witness Diane Wilson about the religion she once embraced. In Awakening of a Jehovah’s Witness: Escape from the Watchtower Society, Wilson recounts her quarter-century in the movement, making the usual case that the Society is a cult, that it exercises unhealthy control over the minds and behavior of its members and that it grooms followers to become victims. Read more…

This is a good overview of Watchtower history. It reveals just how many predictions they got wrong, and how many doctrines fell by the wayside. Fortunately, the writer sticks to the facts and doesn’t get into doctrinal debates. Read more…

In his second book Franz has brought together a rich array of background knowledge and memories of actual conversations with top leaders within the Watch Tower Organization to squarely and thoroughly investigate the validity of the claims made by the movement. Read more…

This book was banned, even before it was written.

The author, Raymond Franz, had been under ban by the Watchtower Society since 1981, when he was excommunicated for eating a meal with a previously banned individual, his landlord. Three million Jehovah’s Witnesses are now forbidden to speak to Franz, read his book, or even say “Hello” if they pass him on the street. Read more…