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Jehovah's Witnesses claim to be a religion guided by love. Throughout Joe's story a common them arises though: "where is the love?". We know that they practice shunning and call th...

"In a way I felt like I was better than everyone else in the world, because I knew the truth. I was one of the few that was going to be saved at Armageddon, but at the same time I ...

At just 19 years old, when others are experiencing life for the first time after high school whether going to college or starting their lives, Isaiah was leaving a cult. That decis...

"Have you ever wondered if this is actually the truth?" Such a simple question. Something that one would think might be a natural question when a person calls their doctrine "The T...

What is it like to grow up as a child in Scientology? Not as a celebrity, nor anyone with clout, but as an average person going to a local church and trying to assimilate into the ...

The underground. As Jehovah's Witnesses we were trained for the possibility that someday we would have to go underground and do our public preaching work in secret. Most of us woul...

"How do you get kicked out of church?" These are the words of Suzanna's brother as he tried to wrap his mind around her shunning. Her journey starts as a 14 year old girl with two ...

What is it like to move around the country multiple times as a child? To not have a consistent place to live? To be placed into foster care at times? To do all of this while growin...

One of the things that really stands out at times is how much people put into following these high control groups, or cults, and how little it takes to get a person kicked out and ...

y Jehovah's Witnesses "God isn't with you. Don't kill yourself. You can get through this even if you have to do it alone." Those are the words of 10 year old Z (Z Olvero, formerl...

Kim grew up in a home where she was to be seen and not heard. Her family was also in a cult where people are to be seen and not heard. Jehovah's Witnesses are obsessed with appeara...

"They weren't there to help me; I'm not going to let them judge me." These were Seth's words as so much in his life came to a head. The loss of his mother early in life, the abuse ...