{"id":298,"date":"2010-05-20T18:59:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T15:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2010\/05\/20\/jehovahs-witness-magazine-is-worlds-most-widely-read-2\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:32:00","slug":"jehovahs-witness-magazine-is-worlds-most-widely-read-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/jehovahs-witness-magazine-is-worlds-most-widely-read-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah\u2019s Witness magazine is world\u2019s most widely read"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jehovah\u2019s Witness magazine is world\u2019s most widely read\u00a0<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s the first Saturday of March and a perfect day for Jehovah\u2019s Witnessing. The sky is clear, the air is crisp and a fresh copy of The Watchtower, stamped March 1, 2010, is ready to be distributed.<\/div>\n
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At least, I assume it\u2019s a good day for Witnessing; this is my first time. Frank and Lydia Tavolacci \u2014 from a Jehovah\u2019s Witness congregation in Glendale, Queens \u2014 have invited me along for a morning of door-knocking in their mostly residential neighborhood. A longtime recipient of the Witnesses\u2019 famous \u201cgood news\u201d wakeup calls, I jumped at the chance to see what it\u2019s like on the other side of the door.<\/div>\n
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The day begins at the small, red-brick Kingdom Hall on Glendale\u2019s Myrtle Avenue, where about 40 Witnesses gather in couples and families. Some thank Jehovah for the blessed day, others thank him for the coffee that got them here by 9 a.m. A few quick hellos in the Hall \u2014 a trapezoidal room with churchlike rows of chairs, a churchlike stage but no churchlike iconography \u2014 and the Witnesses head downstairs to arm themselves.<\/div>\n

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Their ammunition is The Watchtower and its companion magazine Awake!, each sitting in piles on a bench in the beige basement-level hallway. At first glance there\u2019s not much difference between the two \u2014 both are flimsy, pamphlet-like 31-page monthlies, each colorfully adorned with photos of smiling faces and illustrations of Biblical happenings. But while Awake! is an attempt at a general interest magazine \u2014 travel and science stories, with a Witness twist \u2014 The Watchtower is strictly Biblical, its contents a doctrinal guide to Witness beliefs. March\u2019s cover boy \u2014 a bearded scribe writing at a desk awash with golden light \u2014 sits over the cover line: \u201cThe Bible, Is It Really God\u2019s Inspired Word?\u201d Inside, a table of contents provides the answer. Page 4: \u201cThe Bible Really Is God\u2019s Inspired Word.\u201d Page 8: \u201cWhy You Can Trust the Biblical Gospels.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Frank takes six copies of the English-language Watchtower, while others select from of piles of Romanian, Italian and Polish editions. Every month, nearly 40 million copies of The Watchtower are printed in more than 180 languages and sent to 236 countries. There are no subscriptions and you won\u2019t find it on newsstands, but it\u2019s still hard to miss. Thanks to the efforts of Witnesses like the Tavolaccis, The Watchtower is the most widely distributed magazine in the world, with a circulation of more than 25 million. Last year, the world\u2019s 7.3 million-strong Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses spent 1.5 billion hours knocking on doors and \u201cstreet Witnessing\u201d \u2014 stopping folks in parks and on streets \u2014 to preach the \u201cgood news\u201d with a copy of The Watchtower. Its closest competitors are AARP The Magazine (circulation 24.3 million) and Better Homes and Gardens (7.6 million). It doesn\u2019t hurt that The Watchtower has been free since 1990, with the option of a small donation.<\/div>\n
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Armed with their copies, Frank and the other Witnesses at the Glendale Kingdom Hall head back upstairs for a pep talk. \u201cElder\u201d John Juels leads the 10-minute session from the stage, offering tips on how the congregation might keep doors open this morning. Frank Tavolacci calls it \u201ca little bit of rah rah rah.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cRaise a topic of interest,\u201d suggests Juels, a short, bespectacled man in a bright orange tie. He invites a young blonde, \u201cSister Rachel,\u201d up from the crowd to the stage for a role play. After a quick knock-knock and some polite doorfront introductions, Juels says the government is a hot topic right now, so Witnesses might raise the spectre of Governor Paterson to keep their bleary-eyed targets listening. \u201cThe government of Jesus Christ is coming,\u201d he tells his mock door-opener. \u201cCertainly God would do a better job than some of the people we have today.\u201d<\/div>\n
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After a prayer, the group divides into pairs to tackle a block of Queens for the morning. I join the Tavolaccis to cover the block directly next to the Kingdom Hall. The two Glendale locals have dressed for what they call \u201cthe best volunteer work there is.\u201d Frank\u2019s wearing a checkered beret, gray suit and orange tie, and Lydia has wrapped herself in a chic, ankle-length black coat, her long blond hair tucked under a black woolen cap. Both are 40, gregarious and equally endowed with the kind of thick \u201cNoo Yawk\u201d accents you might expect to hear heckling the umpire at a Yankees game.<\/div>\n
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Their first door belongs to a large, two-story brick home on the wide and leafy Union Turnpike. Stepping up to the door, Lydia switches off her BlackBerry and tells Frank to get Psalm 104 ready in his black leatherbound Bible. Hers is a little tatty from use. Passages are highlighted, verse numbers circled and dozens of bright orange and pink sticky notes peek out from pages. Lydia is out on \u201cfield service\u201d for at least two hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Ringing the bell, she asks Frank to hold The Watchtower so it is visible to whomever should open the door. Nobody does.<\/div>\n
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After three minutes, she rings again. She always rings twice. Again, nobody answers. On a piece of yellow paper called a \u201cHouse Call Card,\u201d a Witness couple working in tandem with the Tavolaccis notes the address and writes \u201cNH\u201d next to it, for \u201cnot home.\u201d Other codes include \u201cCA\u201d for people who ask Witnesses to call again, \u201cB\u201d for busy and \u201cC\u201d for when a child answers the door.<\/div>\n
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And so it goes. NH, NH, NH. \u201cIt\u2019s not a chore,\u201d Lydia insists, as they move on to a woman who dismisses them with a curt \u201cI\u2019m Catholic.\u201d \u201cI mean, it\u2019s not something you want to do, but it\u2019s an important thing to do and it\u2019s something you can do for God. You\u2019re saving people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Frank and Lydia get their chance at the second-to-last house on the block. Amanda, a teenager with pulled-back frizzy brown hair opens the door wearing pajama pants decorated with pictures of milkshakes and the words \u201cShake it baby!\u201d She is in the mood to talk. \u201cDo you believe the Bible is inspired by God or just written by man?\u201d asks Lydia in a sweet, slow elementary school teacher\u2019s voice. \u201cInspired,\u201d answers Amanda, after taking a moment to think.<\/div>\n
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They talk for five minutes before Lydia returns to the sidewalk and takes a purple-covered diary from her bag. On the top leaf of a pad of heart-shaped sticky notes inside, she writes down the scripture they discussed and which Watchtower edition she left behind. She promises to return next Saturday.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI want to come back with a good question,\u201d she says, clearly excited by Amanda. \u201cLike, \u2018Do you think we\u2019re living in the last days?\u2019\u201d<\/div>\n
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While some magazines have religious followings, few have actually started religions. The Watchtower did just that. Back then, it was Zion\u2019s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ\u2019s Presence, so named by its founder, the writer and preacher Charles T. Russell. A former assistant editor of the Second Adventist magazine The Herald of the Morning, Russell released the first edition of Zion\u2019s Watch Tower on July 1, 1879. It looked much like a newspaper of the time, with two columns, simple headlines and no images. Inside, readers learned that \u201cwe are living in \u2018the last days,\u2019 \u2018the days of the Lord.\u2019\u201d<\/div>\n
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Russell, a charismatic Pennsylvania preacher with a big graying beard and an even bigger bank account, amassed followers in the years leading up to 1879 through public speaking tours and writings in newspaper columns and the Adventist magazine. He began questioning Adventist doctrine when the world failed to end, as it had predicted, in 1878. Russell used the monthly Zion\u2019s Watch Tower to expound a new brand of Christianity to small congregations of Bible Students, as Witnesses were then known, mostly in the Northeast.<\/div>\n
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The new brand, familiar to many today from television expos\u00e9s and house calls, taught that Christ would return to Earth in 1914 to govern the world, destroy nonbelievers and leave Witnesses to transform the planet into Paradise. It was revised in the 1930s, when the religion adopted the name Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, to teach that Christ did return in 1914 \u2014 he was just invisible \u2014 and that within a generation Armageddon would finally arrive. Witnesses now take a less specific approach to the end of the world.<\/div>\n
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Today, The Watchtower is the flagship publication produced by Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses. The magazine and other literature is published by their not-for-profit corporation, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania; Witnesses also use another not-for-profit corporation in the United States, named the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., which is responsible for printing and distributing the magazine. The Tract Society\u2019s catalogue includes the two magazines, a ballooning collection of books and brochures and The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, the religion\u2019s official Bible. As of this year, 165 million New World Translations have been printed since it was first published in 1961.<\/div>\n
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The mammoth operation is funded by donations, mainly from Witnesses leaving anonymous contributions in boxes titled \u201cWorldwide Work\u201d at the back of Kingdom Halls. The money is funneled to the U.S. world headquarters to fund the publishing empire, as well as disaster relief. Just how much moolah makes that journey is unknown \u2014 as a religious organization, the Tract Society does not have to file an annual return with the IRS \u2014 but in 2001, Newsday listed the Tract Society as one of New York City\u2019s 40 richest corporations, with revenues of $951 million. Last year, a report stated that the Society had pulled in $125 million for the fiscal year ending in August.<\/div>\n
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Manhattanites might recognize the Tract Society\u2019s headquarters from the skyline to their east \u2014 a pair of stout beige towers nudging the base of the Brooklyn Bridge and the shore of the East River in Brooklyn Heights; squint and you can see the word \u201cWatchtower\u201d stamped across their peaks. The Brooklyn Bethel, as the faithful call it, also functions as the religion\u2019s world headquarters. Here, the nine-member governing body of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses pulls the sect\u2019s doctrinal strings and steers its publishing enterprise. All members of the governing body claim to come from the \u201clittle flock,\u201d an anointed class of 144,000 Witnesses who will ascend to heaven upon Armageddon; other Witnesses will have to be satisfied with paradise on Earth.<\/div>\n
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Few non-Witnesses are allowed inside the Bethel headquarters and you\u2019d be forgiven for conjuring fantastical reasons as to why \u2014 the anti-Witness publishing industry rivals The Tract Society\u2019s in size and includes among its titles The Orwellian World of the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses and 30 Years a Watchtower Slave. But the day I visit, Brooklyn Bethel is less Airstrip One than Pan Am corporate headquarters circa 1965. In the lobby, a dull-painted plaster globe \u2014 the size of a boulder Indiana Jones might have to outrun \u2014 spins forlornly. Along maroon-carpeted corridors, cheery men in snug dark suits apologize for being too rushed to stop and chat. Everywhere, everyone asks you to stay for lunch.<\/div>\n
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Despite the absence of a masthead and bylines, The Watchtower is no immaculate conception. Each edition\u2019s journey to your door begins a year ahead of publication at a meeting of the nine-member Writing Committee in the Writing Committee Conference Room, a boardroom dominated by a long polished wooden desk and two mammoth Sony flat screens on the wall; more Vogue Living than Mother Jones.<\/div>\n
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James Pellechia is one of the magazine\u2019s writers and a member of the Writing Committee. Dapper in a dark gray suit, dark gray vest and even darker gray tie \u2014 all under wispy gray hair \u2014 66-year-old Pellechia is a third-generation Witness. His grandparents converted in 1908 after migrating from Italy to Roseto, Pa., and he came to Bethel in 1982 to join the Writing Department. He and his fellow committee members choose the theme of each Watchtower issue and the articles it will feature. \u201cIt\u2019s for Witnesses but also for the public,\u201d Pellechia says of The Watchtower. \u201cFor people who would be interested in what the Bible would say about subjects like child-rearing and how to keep marriages united.\u201d The magazine might focus on infidelity in May, homosexuality in June and earthquakes in July. Articles might answer questions like \u201cShould you be honest at all times?\u201d and \u201cHas God left us?\u201d (Yes, and no, in case you were wondering.) Each article is littered with scriptural references, which function like hyperlinks, directing readers to Bible pages for further reading. The committee also decides questions and answers for the special \u201cstudy\u201d editions of The Watchtower produced specifically for Witnesses already in the flock to study at Kingdom Halls every week. The number of study editions printed is undisclosed.<\/div>\n
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The Watchtower then comes together like most magazines, Pellechia explains. A writer is chosen as a \u201cCompiler,\u201d functioning like a magazine editor, and an assignment editor distributes briefs to writers \u2014 there are about 20 on staff. Copy is fact-checked, copy-edited and rewritten as it moves through the 70-person Writing Department. Illustrators and photographers, at a Witness training campus in Patterson, N.Y., provide the images.<\/div>\n
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Writers live with about 1500 other Bethel workers, including cooks, secretaries, cleaners and committee members, in five buildings throughout Brooklyn Heights. Meals, accommodation and an allowance are provided to keep the focus on God\u2019s work. One Witness-occupied residential tower on Wilson Street might be the best deal in New York, housing 500 Witnesses, a library, a medical center and a dining room. Witnesses call it the \u201cTowers Hotel.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Despite rumors to the contrary, women can write for The Watchtower, but not on scriptural matters. \u201cThat\u2019s what the Bible indicates according to our concept of it,\u201d says assignment editor John Wischuck. \u201cIf they wanted to write something about dressmaking, a sister could do that. It might be in another case that she interviews another woman and writes up her life story. That would go through an editor or a rewrite.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Before the magazine is sent to a facility known as Watchtower Farms, in Wallkill, N.Y., and to 16 other production centers across to the world \u2014 to be printed, bound and packaged for distribution \u2014 the Writing Committee takes a final look. \u201cAll nine of us read it,\u201d says Pellechia. \u201cEach one sees the previous writing committee member\u2019s marks and either adds to it, reinforces it, or, once in a while, may change it. We need to ensure it is in agreement with our doctrine, scripturally.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Of course, the magazine does not always agree with itself \u2014 or past versions of itself \u2014 on these matters. Early in its history, for example, The Watchtower told followers that the mischievous men of Sodom and Gomorrah would be resurrected. In 1988, an article in The Watchtower reversed this position. \u201cOur publications are not infallible,\u201d Pellechia says. \u201cCertain Bible texts, certain doctrine, may need adjustment as more information is researched and understanding grows.\u201d<\/div>\n
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David A. Reed, a critic and former high-ranking Witness, wrote in his book, Jehovah\u2019s Witness Literature, that \u201cmuch like a collection of White House news releases written during successive Democratic and Republican administrations, the Watchtower Society\u2019s books and magazines reflect the sect\u2019s changing leadership over the years.\u201d<\/div>\n
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In an e-mail to me, Reed wrote that he stopped reading the magazine in 1999, a year before Don Alden Adams became the religion\u2019s leader. In general, Reed says, today\u2019s Watchtower and the religion behind it are far different from their earliest incarnations. \u201cIn terms of internal organizational politics, or religious positions, they are more conservative now than in the days of founder C.T. Russell. The Witnesses are now a tightly controlled, disciplined group, which they were not under Russell.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The most tightly controlled aspect of the Witnesses\u2019 publishing arm may be the names of Watchtower authors. No Tract Society publication has carried bylines since the early 1940s, because, according to assignment editor Wischuck, the \u201cglory should go to God.\u201d Pellechia expands on that: \u201cThere were about 40 writers of the Bible and for the most part, people who read the sacred texts may or may not have known who wrote that information. The material should stand on its own merits and attention should be focused back on the word of God rather than the individual.\u201d<\/div>\n
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This sort of fifth-person approach to writing means The Watchtower can read like a textbook rendering of the Bible; big on plague and pestilance but short on the simple, beatific prose that marks its source. Former Witness Kyria Abrahams describes the magazine she read growing up in a Kingdom Hall in Pawtucket, R.I., as \u201cextremely boring.\u201d \u201cThey were pretty much all on the same theme,\u201d she says today. \u201c\u2018Why does God allow blah blah blah?\u2019 \u2018Is blank okay?\u2019 And you know that it isn\u2019t. For the most part, it was written at a fifth grade level.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Abrahams, now 36 and living as a writer in New York City, parted with the Witnesses 11 years ago. She courted her own \u201cdisfellowshipping\u201d by cheating on the husband she had married at 18. \u201cI wanted out of the marriage so bad that I ended up just having an affair,\u201d she says. \u201cI was so entrenched in the idea of the religion that it was like I was somehow playing by their rules in order to leave.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Abrahams has not spoken to her father since she left the religion, and has not heard from her mother in three years. She probably won\u2019t hear from either ever again after the release of her acerbically funny account of her life as a Witness, I\u2019m Perfect, You\u2019re Doomed, last year. In the first chapter of the book, she reveals that her Jewish grandmother became a Witness after discovering a copy of The Watchtower on top of a trash can. In the third chapter, she describes her own experience with the books and magazines produced at Bethel. \u201cMy children\u2019s books alternated between Dr. Seuss rhymes and tales of how sinners would scream and gnash their teeth at Armageddon,\u201d she writes.<\/div>\n
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Like the Tavolaccis, Abrahams did her duty, door-knocking three times a week in her teens with a close friend named Kathy. She would do anything to get out of it \u2014 only pretending to ring the bell, encouraging Kathy to take long coffee breaks \u2014 and remembers many slamming doors. But it was a man who played along that stings her memory most sorely. After Abrahams told him she\u2019d be happy to accept a small donation, he looked at her disdainfully and said, \u201cI bet you would,\u201d before handing her some change. \u201cHe saw right through me,\u201d says Abrahams, who was 14 at the time. \u201cI was totally aware that I was just this really annoying, weird person at the door, and I didn\u2019t even know what I was talking about.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Today, she sometimes sees The Watchtower in the back of a cab or in a doctor\u2019s office. \u201cI will pick it up and look at it for nostalgia,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s still the same as it was when I was a kid \u2014 nothing shocking, nothing weird. I would think that I\u2019m going to get a big laugh out of it, but I just end up being sad and put it away.\u201d No Witnesses have knocked on her door since she left her religion, husband and family behind.<\/div>\n
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But there are those who look forward to the familiar ring of the doorbell on a weekend. I joined Frank and Lydia Tavolacci on their fifth return call to 81-year-old Dominic Bonura\u2019s small one-bedroom walkup in Glendale. The couple makes several of these return visits to people they\u2019ve met while door-knocking every week. \u201cWhat took you so long?\u201d Bonura asks cheerily, opening the door.<\/div>\n
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Bonura\u2019s wife died 12 years ago. \u201cShe was the most gorgeous thing you ever saw,\u201d he says as we take our seats in a small living room cluttered with portraits of grinning grandchildren. A former butcher and sometime boxer, Bonura\u2019s thin-skinned hands have been knotted by carpal tunnel syndrome. Resting on his knees, they look like large, crushed spiders.<\/div>\n
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He is dressed as if he were expecting us \u2014 polished shoes, pressed pants, a navy button-down all buttoned up \u2014 and he has a lot to say. He cuts Frank short before he can discuss the last readings he left. \u201cThis carpal tunnel is killing me, Franky,\u201d he says huskily, stretching his arms and fingers out in angry defiance. \u201cI tried to lift a two-pound weight the other day and it hurt so bad I wanted to go somewhere and croak. I\u2019ve been disgusted with people in the world and with myself. I\u2019m not going to lie to you Franky, I didn\u2019t read a scripture, a Watchtower or an Awake!.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Frank moves over to Bonura, crouches beside him and asks him to read from a Bible page stamped with extra-large print. Bonura pulls a pair of glasses from his pocket and loudly and clearly reads from the book of Isaiah. \u201cSo do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.\u201d He lowers the Bible.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhen a father is holding a little boy\u2019s hand, how does that little boy feel?\u201d asks Frank.<\/div>\n
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\u201cHe feels safe and protected,\u201d answers Bonura, his face softening. Reflecting on his recent tough times, he says, \u201cSatan might have grabbed me by the shirt, but he doesn\u2019t have me by the heart.\u201d<\/div>\n
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From here, Frank talks with Bonura about his wife, his daughter and the stresses of staying cooped up in his apartment. Frank explains that \u201cAll scripture is inspired, not half, and not a quarter. God\u2019s word can help us with any principle of life.\u201d This is the message of the month\u2019s Watchtower cover story.<\/div>\n
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Before we leave, Bonura stops Frank. \u201cI was just thinking about that little guy in the street, Franky, holding his father\u2019s hand. If he let go, it wouldn\u2019t take a second for a car to sweep him away.\u201d He pauses. \u201cHe can\u2019t let go.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cAnd he hasn\u2019t let you go,\u201d says Lydia from the couch. \u201cDom, we\u2019re here.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Bonura then turns to me and tells me to write this down, word perfect, with an exclamation mark. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing like the truth, nothing!\u201d he says. \u201cThese people, this organization, are beautiful. You can trust these people with your life.\u201d He looks at Lydia. \u201cYou keep coming back like a song.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cYou know who encourages us to come back,\u201d asks Lydia. \u201cJehovah.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The Tavolaccis make tentative plans to return next Saturday before heading downstairs, leaving Bonura alone with his thoughts and a copy of The Watchtower.<\/div>\n
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