![]() ![]() They predicted the end of the world in 1914, 1918, 19 … their obsession with the end of the world is ongoing. ![]() In a column six years ago I also mentioned Barbara Anderson, a JW for 43 years and major whistleblower, the late Ray Franz, author of Crisis of Conscience ( NuLife Press, 5th ed., 2018) and former member of the Witnesses’ Governing Body, and Candace Conti, a victim of child abuse whose lawsuit cost the Watchtower millions of dollars. He is now 89, but is still trying to help former members. Keep him in mind when Jehovah’s Witnesses show up at your door. Ever since I met Penton I’ve regarded him as a hero for his courage to keep faith in God despite Kingdom Hall hatred and worldwide attacks. His book Apocalypse Delayed ( University of Toronto Press, 3rd ed., 2015) is the most significant scholarly study of Witnesses, period. Watch Tower Society leaders, instead of listening to Penton’s evidence of corruption and false teachings in the group, kicked him out along with his wife Marilyn, other family members and fellow Witnesses from their Lethbridge, Alta., congregation.Īfter his excommunication Penton became one of the world’s most influential critics of Jehovah’s Witnesses. ![]() James Penton, then a history professor and now the most famous ex-JW in Canada. It covered the drama of dissent among Jehovah’s Witnesses in Canada, in particular the story of M. My first single-author book Crisis of Allegiance ( Welch, 1986) has stood the test of time. Understanding those who knock on our doors ![]()
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