Scorah takes a job producing podcasts and meets an American man who exposes her to ideas she hasn’t before considered. The couple’s proselytizing most often started as an outside-the-faith relationship and this is where things unfurled. Jehovah’s Witness activities are illegal in China, so the pair had to conduct their missionary work in secret. Leaving the Witness opens as the author recounts her move from Vancouver to Shanghai, an adventure she hoped would invigorate her marriage. Jehovah’s Witnesses are discouraged in working or socializing unless these pursuits center on the faith. But you will be better for it should you choose to do so.īorn into the Jehovah’s Witness faith, the writer’s entire world was comprised of the religion. Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life is a deeply personal and detailed exposition that, at times, is difficult to read. In a new memoir, Scorah chronicles her experience in the Jehovah’s Witness faith and ultimately leaving it to start an entirely different life. She also knew if you were that person who hid behind the curtains pretending you weren’t home.
NH for not home B-CA for busy, call again DNC for do not call, if a resident was unusually threatening. As an adolescent Jehovah’s Witness, Amber Scorah knocked on plenty of doors and assigned each house a two- or three-letter code.