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A first book by the creator of the "Dear Amber" podcast describes her strict upbringing as a third-generation Jehovah's Witness and her efforts to find her true place in the world apart from the edicts of her family and faith.
A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She took the message to China, where immersion in a foreign language and culture turned her world upside down,...
3) Dissent on the margins: how Soviet Jehovah's Witnesses defied Communism and lived to preach about it
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Oxford University Press
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[2014]
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Este libro utiliza la Traducción del Nuevo Mundo de las Sagradas Escrituras para demostrar que las enseñanzas de los Testigos de Jehová sobre los Últimos Días y las Buenas Nuevas de Salvación no son bíblicas. El autor, anciano de los Testigos de Jehová durante 40 años, comparte los resultados de los últimos diez años de su investigación sobre las enseñanzas de la Watch Tower como la presencia invisible de Cristo en 1914, la doctrina de...
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Lionsgate
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[2018]
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English
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Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them both.
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"A lively, affectionate autobiography with messages of inspiration and acceptance." -Kirkus Reviews
"An inspiring depiction of human endurance and the heart-healing balms of generosity and kindness." -Jeff Mann, author of Purgatory
When Scott Terry was ten, he embraced the Jehovah's Witness faith and their prediction that the world would soon end. As an adolescent, he prepared for Armageddon and prayed for God to strip away his growing attraction...
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Do you want to share the gospel with Jehovah's Witnesses but don't know what to say? Have you tried to talk with them only to end up frustrated and going around in circles? The key to effective communication with Jehovah's Witnesses is getting them out of their prepared presentations by approaching Bible discussion in ways they won't expect. In this way, you can get them off autopilot and help them focus on what the Bible is really saying.
This book...
9) Crisis of Conscience: The Story of the Struggle Between Loyalty to God and Loyalty to One's Religion
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Crisis of Conscience presents the story of a struggle to prevent the erosion of a God-given freedom of conscience and the ensuing dilemma of choosing between loyalty to God and loyalty to one's religion.
Former member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, Raymond Franz delivers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Watch Tower Society. In response to extraordinary events, Franz tells a unique account of the decision-making sessions...
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How far would you go to pursue truth? For a boy raised in the Jehovah's Witness religion, truth is taken for granted. But as adolescence sets in, the desire for more in life impels him to seek answers to his questions outside the four walls of the local Kingdom Hall. Tortured by his past and his uncertainty about the present, he wanders far afield and ultimately into a booze-soaked despair that he is unable to free himself from. But in that powerlessness...
11) Blood Crimes
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From Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Brooklyn Heights, New York, Fred Rosen investigates the horrifying true story of 2 brothers who murdered their family - and the legacy of dysfunction behind their crimes. Raised as Jehovah's Witnesses and frustrated with their parents' repressive rules, Bryan and David Freeman rebelled as teenagers. Encouraged by an acquaintance he met while institutionalized at a reform school, Bryan became a neo-Nazi. Bryan then...
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L'auteur nous livre un témoignage bouleversant, cruel de vérité et de réalisme, sur son quotidien au sein des témoins de Jéhovah
Avec Michèle Bastin, nous entrons dans cet univers inconnu et terrifiant fait de préceptes et d'interdits. Avec elle, nous refaisons tout le parcours depuis que, jeune femme abandonnée, enceinte et affaiblie psychologiquement, elle a cru trouver réconfort et protection parmi ses « Frères et Sœurs » jusqu'à...
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