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When The World Didn't End: Faith, Fear, and Leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses - Softcover

Goslett, Ivan

 
9781066727117: When The World Didn't End: Faith, Fear, and Leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses

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For nearly fifty years, Ivan Goslett believed the end of the world was just around the corner.

Raised within the strict teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses in apartheid-era South Africa, he was taught that obedience meant survival, doubt was dangerous, and Armageddon was imminent. From childhood, every aspect of life was shaped by a belief system that demanded conformity, discouraged independent thought, and promised paradise just beyond the horizon.

But as unanswered questions began to outweigh certainty, the foundations of Ivan’s world started to crack.

When the World Didn’t End is a deeply personal memoir of faith, fear, identity, and freedom. With honesty, warmth, and occasional humour, Ivan recounts his journey from unquestioning believer to independent thinker, exploring the emotional cost of leaving a high-control religion and rebuilding a life beyond it.

Along the way, he reflects on family, love, loss, shunning, resilience, and the search for truth in a world no longer defined by certainty.

This is not a book about attacking faith. It is a story about finding the courage to ask difficult questions, trust your own voice, and discover who you are when the beliefs that shaped your life no longer hold.

A powerful and moving memoir for anyone who has ever questioned, doubted, left, or begun again.

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