New sleeveless sacred undergarments for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are now available in the U.S., exciting many women in the faith.
The two major improvements with JW’s right now are that the New Zealand court battle means that they need to give up some aspects of “disfellowshipping” - basically, doing something against the religions rules could result in you losing all of your friends, family and social connection. The kind of situation where maybe you could talk to your family again if yo were actively dying. Now the rules allow sending along an invite them to church (“Kingdom Hall”) meetings and maybe a short “hello” occasionally.
The other change is that they just got rid of the informal “ban” on college education that they’ve had for ages. Dads letting their kids get college educations could be punished at church, and there’s a ton of JW propaganda that discourages more than graduating high school. They’re recognizing that isn’t economically viable, and also they need educated professionals to run their ministry.
I don’t know if that’s they are getting more “relaxed” though. It’s more a savvy game to hold on to power and avoid consequences.
I keep on JW news far far more than people that were never in should. They are absolutely getting more relaxed. The less strict time reporting and the allowance of things that they previously had a total ban on even outside of a court case is huge evidence to this, and have also outright stated that just because something has pegan orgins doesn’t mean it is still influenced by that today which is why they now outright allow people to toast.
The two major improvements with JW’s right now are that the New Zealand court battle means that they need to give up some aspects of “disfellowshipping” - basically, doing something against the religions rules could result in you losing all of your friends, family and social connection. The kind of situation where maybe you could talk to your family again if yo were actively dying. Now the rules allow sending along an invite them to church (“Kingdom Hall”) meetings and maybe a short “hello” occasionally.
The other change is that they just got rid of the informal “ban” on college education that they’ve had for ages. Dads letting their kids get college educations could be punished at church, and there’s a ton of JW propaganda that discourages more than graduating high school. They’re recognizing that isn’t economically viable, and also they need educated professionals to run their ministry.
I don’t know if that’s they are getting more “relaxed” though. It’s more a savvy game to hold on to power and avoid consequences.
I keep on JW news far far more than people that were never in should. They are absolutely getting more relaxed. The less strict time reporting and the allowance of things that they previously had a total ban on even outside of a court case is huge evidence to this, and have also outright stated that just because something has pegan orgins doesn’t mean it is still influenced by that today which is why they now outright allow people to toast.