Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
For most young women with a creative bent, growing up as a Jehovah's Witness is not easy. Such was the case for Rebecca. Rules, patriarchy, and the ever-present threat of Armageddon seemed set to stifle any hopes for a career as a writer ...
REBECCA WOODWARD is a freelance journalist and essayist currently working on her first book -- a memoir about the trials and tribulations of growing up Witness. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, HuffPost, Paste and Brooklyn Magazine.
00:00 START
02:03 What the JWs believe
07:38 JWs come knocking
16:22 Day-to-day JW life
23:10 Red flags
29:34 End of the World
43:14 Leaving the JWs
47:51 Activism
LINKS FOR REBECCA WOODWARD
SITE: rebeccawoodward.com
TWITTER: twitter.com/beckwoodward
INSTA: instagram.com/beckwoodward
Cult Hackers interview: apple.co/3OkLEK0
SUBSTACK: rebeccawoodward.substack.com (Essays on arts and culture, comedy and tragedy)
ARTICLE: I Was Raised To Believe The Apocalypse Was Upon Us. 2020 Is The Year I Stopped Believing. bit.ly/3K02Fq9
Incidental music by the indomitable Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com
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For most young women with a creative bent, growing up as a Jehovah's Witness is not easy. Such was the case for Rebecca. Rules, patriarchy, and the ever-present threat of Armageddon seemed set to stifle any hopes for a career as a writer ...
REBECCA WOODWARD is a freelance journalist and essayist currently working on her first book -- a memoir about the trials and tribulations of growing up Witness. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, HuffPost, Paste and Brooklyn Magazine.
00:00 START
02:03 What the JWs believe
07:38 JWs come knocking
16:22 Day-to-day JW life
23:10 Red flags
29:34 End of the World
43:14 Leaving the JWs
47:51 Activism
LINKS FOR REBECCA WOODWARD
SITE: rebeccawoodward.com
TWITTER: twitter.com/beckwoodward
INSTA: instagram.com/beckwoodward
Cult Hackers interview: apple.co/3OkLEK0
SUBSTACK: rebeccawoodward.substack.com (Essays on arts and culture, comedy and tragedy)
ARTICLE: I Was Raised To Believe The Apocalypse Was Upon Us. 2020 Is The Year I Stopped Believing. bit.ly/3K02Fq9
Incidental music by the indomitable Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com
Interviews powered by streamyard.com
**********
TALK BELIEFS: Exploring - and challenging - what and why we believe.
The Talk Beliefs YouTube Channel has been online since 2015 and has been featured on Reggie Yates' Extreme UK for BBC 3 Television. Would you like to help support Talk Beliefs or perhaps tell your own story in an interview? Channel inquiries & direct messages: unchainedmind1@gmail.com
Talk Beliefs - In Association with Evolution Soup (Sister Channel).
Follow @TalkBeliefs on Twitter!
Join the Talk Beliefs Facebook Group bit.ly/2fCRLLF
Follow the Talk Beliefs Facebook Page: fb.me/talkbeliefs
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/talkbeliefs
Instagram: instagram.com/talkbeliefs
Tik Tok: @talkbeliefs
Would you like to become a supporter of the Talk Beliefs YouTube channel? Click HERE ow.ly/vn2v30fVYBx
Talk Beliefs Logo Animation by Zaraza Iulian bit.ly/2ytX4Vt
Royalty Free Music via Purple Planet: purple-planet.com
*****
Thinking about leaving your religion? Need to talk?
Recovering From Religion - Find a worldwide support group:
recoveringfromreligion.org
*****
"I love making #talkbeliefs content and appreciate every view, like, and share! Through this channel, people have come to terms with leaving religion, and have taken the first steps to leaving destructive cults. It's my goal to continue to help and educate. Thank you all for your support." ~ Mark :-)
Evolution Soup - The World of Evolution
YouTube: goo.gl/X19xK6
Podcast: evolutionsoup.buzzsprout.com
Instagram: instagram.com/evolution_soup
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/evolutionsoup
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DISCLAIMER:
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
#atheism #science #reason #humanism #christianity #evolution #creation #creationism #belief #secular #mormon #freethinker #darwin #humanist #cult #cults #atheist #humanist #mormon #religion #bookofmormon #jehovah #harekrishna #scientology #leahremini #scientologyandtheaftermath #secularism #dawkins #beliefs #creationist #paleo #cultsandextremebeliefs #paleoanthrology #exjw #exmormon #exchristian #exscientologist
