MOXIE is the founder and editor of JWRecovery Magazine. Raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, she left the religion in 1999. Shunned by her former friends and family for the last 10 years, she has dedicated considerable effort toward promoting healing and recovery for former Jehovah’s Witnesses around the world.

Moxie is the founder of the website www.JehovahsWitnessRecovery.com, which includes a popular community forum that helps doubting, exiting and former Jehovah’s Witnesses interact with their peers in a supportive, healing environment. She also runs the blog Conversations with an ex Jehovah’s Witness at www.exJehovahsWitness.net, in which she discusses her own personal experiences as a former Witness and covers major current news stories concerning the Watch Tower organization.

As a humanist and atheist, Moxie supports a number of organizations that work to advance the causes of reason, science and human rights. She is a registered member of both the Canadian and American Humanist Associations and is a supporter of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, which helps to spread rational thinking and science education throughout the world. Moxie is passionate about the struggle for women’s equality and is a supporter of the Ayan Hirsi Ali (AHA) Foundation, which helps to protect and defend the rights of women in the West against militant Islam through education, outreach and the dissemination of knowledge.

As a web designer and Internet marketing specialist by trade, Moxie also works to support the efforts of other website owners within the exJW community. By applying her expertise in this way, she hopes to help improve the online visibility and reach of information concerning the Watchtower Society of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Above all, Moxie is passionate about making a difference in the lives of former Jehovah’s Witnesses. She is often called on to assist therapists and counselors who are working with patients suffering the aftereffects of the Watch Tower organization. She is determined to use her experiences for the benefit of others. Moxie’s personal mission is mirrored in the statement of purpose on JWR, which is to promote positive healing and recovery for former Jehovah’s Witnesses. She works as an advocate for those who have chosen to leave the organization and suffer from the extreme shunning that the Watchtower enforces on former members.

It is with great pleasure that Moxie and the editing staff present JWRecovery Magazine, the first publication of its kind. As a community contributed journal, the goal is to provide yet another means for Jehovah’s Witnesses to access information and recovery support/assistance.

Moxie continues her outreach work, supporting and leading special projects that further the goal of promoting positive healing and recovery for former Jehovah’s Witnesses around the world.

TREKKERJW is the associate editor of JWRecovery Magazine. With more than 20 years spent as a Jehovah’s Witness and over a decade working in the newspaper industry, TrekkerJW is proud to use his experience to help bring JWRecovery Magazine to life.

Depending on how you look at it, TrekkerJW is a third- or fifth-generation Jehovah’s Witness (on his father’s side, his father, a set of great-grandparents and a set of great-great-grandparents are/were Jehovah’s Witnesses, and on his mother’s side, his grandparents became Jehovah’s Witnesses nearly 60 years ago). Despite his family’s long history with the Watch Tower Society, TrekkerJW always had doubts: Why is there no discussion of topics but only parroting of printed information at congregation meetings? Why are there so many unsourced quotes in Watch Tower publications? Why would a loving god plan to willingly destroy billions of people? Did a stuffed toy Smurf really walk out of a Kingdom Hall?

Thinking he could ignore his concerns, TrekkerJW dedicated his life to the Watch Tower Society and was baptized in 1997 – ignoring who he really was to maintain relationships with family and lifelong friends. He quietly left the organization in 2004, attending his last meeting in May and his last district convention in June of that year. His immediate family discovered this a year later, leading TrekkerJW to make the most difficult decision of his life: coming out to them as a gay man.

The shunning that immediately ensued led TrekkerJW to seriously question the beliefs he was raised with, and he began researching Jehovah’s Witnesses online, soon discovering the Watch Tower Society’s 10-year involvement with the United Nations, the fact that Jerusalem was destroyed in 586/587 BC (not 607 BC as Jehovah’s Witnesses teach) and the misquotes in the book Life – How Did it Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?

TrekkerJW hopes that JWRecovery Magazine will help a new audience see the truth behind the Watch Tower Society, helping new recruits to steer clear of the organization and encouraging questioning or thinking current members to get the help they need to escape.

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