1084: Lloyd Evans on The History of the Jehovah's Witness Movement
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Mormon Stories Podcast is excited to interview Lloyd Evans—founder and senior editor of JWsurvey.org—a website that promotes freeness of thought among Jehovah’s Witnesses. He is also author of “The Reluctant Apostate,” a book that chronicles his experiences growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness and his journey to freedom from Watchtower indoctrination. His wildly popular Youtube channel “John Cedars” hosts a range of videos aimed at dissecting the various teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses, as well as new developments in the religion.
In this portion of our time with Lloyd, we focus on the history of the Jehovah Witness movement to provide a foundation for our future discussion on what it is like to be a Jehovah’s Witness as well as his experience leaving the religion behind.
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| 0:48.1 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:52.6 | Delin. It is March 6th, 2019 and I could not be more excited for today's interview. |
| 1:01.9 | This interview came about because a dear friend of mine, Jason Moore from Houston, has been following |
| 1:09.3 | Lloyd Evans. Lloyd Evans has a website called the Reluctant Apostate and I'll just read the bio. |
| 1:15.8 | Lloyd Evans is an ex-Jovas witness author, activist and filmmaker. In 2011, he founded |
| 1:22.6 | J.W. Survey.org and online resource aimed at assisting those who wish to leave the witness faith. |
| 1:29.8 | In 2017, Lloyd published his first book, The Reluctant Apostate, a part memoir, a part reference work |
| 1:36.3 | interweaving his story with Watch Tower readings and history. Lloyd then published a follow-up titled |
| 1:43.2 | How to Escape from Jehovah's Witnesses aimed as a guide for those who consider quitting his |
| 1:47.8 | former faith. For those of you who have been following Mormon stories for some time, you'll know that |
| 1:53.3 | last year I interviewed Tova Marivus and Tova is internationally recognized author and she |
| 2:04.1 | wrote a memoir called The Book of Separation which chronicle her separation from orthodox |
| 2:10.7 | Judaism and her eventual divorce from her husband. That was a really popular episode. |
| 2:21.3 | We learn from that interview that you Mormon stories listeners really want to hear the exit |
| 2:27.8 | narratives of people from other faith traditions. Consider this the second in what I hope to be a series |
| 2:34.5 | I want to interview ex-scientologists, ex-Evangelical Christians, ex-Penocostal Christians, |
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