Born into a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Daniel Allen Cox was raised to believe that the end was always nigh. In the theology that is threaded through both Cox’s childhood and his memoir ...

In the book, Scorah shares the email her sister sent imploring her to return to the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The rest of her family closed her out completely, she writes.

Scorah’s religion of origin is a bit more consequential than your run-of-the-mill evangelical variety of Christian faith. Many would argue that Jehovah’s Witnesses are members of a cult. Scorah ...

3. Do Jehovah’s Witnesses affirm the deity of Christ? They deny it. Jesus Christ, they teach, was neither equal to Jehovah nor co-eternal with Jehovah but was the Father’s first creature.

Later in the book, when Scorah described beginning to move to leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses voluntarily, she tells the story of Dale Thomson, who was disfellowshipped.

“Jehovah’s Witnesses” is a title based upon a phrase found three times in a central passage in one book of the Bible, namely, Isaiah 43:10, 12, and 44:8, in which the Lord says, “Ye are my ...