Ed Dunlap Describes His Experience In The 1980 Bethel Purge

Up until the purges that took place at Brooklyn Bethel in 1980, Ed Dunlap had served as the Registrar and one of the senior instructors of the Gilead School. Dunlap was one of the victims of the witch hunts that took place in 1980 and was disfellowshipped for "apostasy", along with members of the translation department.

In Raymond Franz’s book Crisis of Conscience, Ray Franz discusses Ed Dunlap’s experience in detail. Dunlap and Franz were close friends who often discussed various Bible topics with one another. Ed Dunlap got into serious trouble when he began to offer his personal honest viewpoint regarding various Bible teachings to members of the Bethel family who asked him questions.

In this two-part audio recording, Ed Dunlap in his own words, talks about his decades of full time service and devotion to the organization. He explains the serious problems that he began to see with various Watchtower teachings and practices. He elaborates on what lead to him being interrogated by members of the Governing Body, and summarily disfellowshipped.

This is Part One, 30 minutes. Part Two is under this entry.

Ed Dunlap Describes His Experience In The 1980 Bethel Purge

Up until the purges that took place at Brooklyn Bethel in 1980, Ed Dunlap had served as the Registrar and one of the senior instructors of the Gilead School. Dunlap was one of the victims of the witch hunts that took place in 1980 and was disfellowshipped for "apostasy", along with members of the translation department.

In Raymond Franz’s book Crisis of Conscience, Ray Franz discusses Ed Dunlap’s experience in detail. Dunlap and Franz were close friends who often discussed various Bible topics with one another. Ed Dunlap got into serious trouble when he began to offer his personal honest viewpoint regarding various Bible teachings to members of the Bethel family who asked him questions.

In this two-part audio recording, Ed Dunlap in his own words, talks about his decades of full time service and devotion to the organization. He explains the serious problems that he began to see with various Watchtower teachings and practices. He elaborates on what lead to him being interrogated by members of the Governing Body, and summarily disfellowshipped.

Interview on BlogTalkRadio with Randall Watters by Nathan Beckman. Ex Jehovah's Witness Saturday morning radio show about Jehovah's Witnesses. Become a member at www.healingxjws.com as former JWs have awakened leaving the organization.   53 minutes mp3 format, recorded 1/16/10. About Randy's story from Bethel and beyond.

This is a one-hour presentation by Peter Gregerson at the BRCI Conference in 2008, where Peter discusses the many who have left the Watchtower and have not found spiritual freedom in Christ and/or whose lives are still broken. Peter shows how many still believe there is a chance that the Watchtower might be the right religion. This is the biggest barrier to their freedom. Peter is actually speaking to that kind of person.  The black box below is a 2-minute sample, but you can download the whole one-hour lecture on the green DOWNLOAD button.

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The audio is a 13 minute interview with Randall Watters and Leonard Chretien, dated 7/22/09