I left the Jehovah’s Witnesses and made up my own rules for life – as a BDSM model
Ariel Anderssen
Giving up on eternal life made me realise I had one chance to achieve something meaningful. For me, that was a submission of a different kind, says model Ariel Anderssen
June 2023
You Can Live Forever review – secret affair for Jehovah’s Witness teens in gay awakening
Two young women uneasily living in a religious community in Quebec embark on a secret affair
May 2023
TV review
Rebekah Vardy: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Me review – this harrowing documentary will totally surprise you
TV tonight
TV tonight: Rebekah Vardy on growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness
Rebekah Vardy says she was sexually abused in Jehovah’s Witness childhood
Life after shunning: what I faced after coming out as a queer Jehovah’s witness
March 2023
Hamburg shooting: seven people killed in Jehovah’s Witnesses hall
'I heard loud gunshots': seven people killed in Jehovah’s Witnesses hall in Hamburg – video report
December 2022
Two dead at Jehovah’s Witnesses center in Colorado
Police say the shooting involved a married couple – an unidentified man fatally shot a woman before killing himself
August 2022
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood by Kit de Waal – review
The My Name Is Leon author’s evocative memoir of growing up in 1960s Moseley perfectly captures the dreams and reality of migration to postwar Birmingham
July 2022
The Last Days by Ali Millar review – a rebellious Jehovah’s Witness memoir
The author’s relentless, opaque account of her joyless religious upbringing proves no less an ordeal for the reader
September 2021
Millions of children in religious groups in England and Wales vulnerable to abuse
IICSA report finds victim blaming, abuse of power and mistrust of authority to be commonplace
January 2021
Beginning review – a Jehovah's Witness under attack in Georgia
Beginning review – shocking but shallow tale of religion and bigotry
August 2020
Former Jehovah's Witness elders call for mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse
Two ex-members tell independent inquiry the church believes it is ‘answerable only to God’
December 2019
On second thoughts
My 60th isn’t ‘just another birthday’. It’s a turning point
Kit de Waal
I’ve had to accept that I’m about to enter ‘old age’, but with this has come the sense of another new start, says the author Kit de Waal
February 2019
Russian jailing of Jehovah's Witness raises persecution fears
Danish builder arrested at prayer meeting imprisoned for organising ‘extremist group’
September 2018
The movie bogeyman of the year? Fundamentalist religion
From The Miseducation of Cameron Post to Apostasy, a new generation of film-makers are railing against the strictures of scripture
August 2018
Jehovah’s Witness girl could receive blood against her will during childbirth
Court grants Victoria’s Mercy hospital authority for blood transfusion as ‘last resort’ if haemorrhaging occurs
July 2018
Apostasy director: ‘It was liberating to leave the Jehovah’s Witnesses’
Daniel Kokotajlo was brought up in the Christian sect. Now his extraordinary debut film casts an acute eye on the religion he turned his back on
