...is coming out of the shadows within the next couple of weeks or so. It's in the publishing pipeline getting ready for printing and then for distribution to all the major online booksellers. Here's the blurb which will appear on the back cover: "Did young Vic Scanlon really see a girl held prisoner in a …

Continue reading Shadows of Gilead…

I am now well on the way towards finishing and publishing my new novel, Shadows of Gilead, which tells the story of three different defectors from a distinctly JW-like religious movement. It follows some dark passageways so will have to come with a trigger warning. Look out for an announcement later this month.

It's Palm Sunday again already and time, maybe, for me to post something about my own take on the story of Jesus (or Yeshua). I find myself at times impatient in equal measure with uncritical believers who insist upon seeing history through the lens of theology, and with belief-debunkers who appear to have been schooled …

Continue reading Reflections for Holy Week and Easter

This is an excerpt from "The Gospel of Eleazar," which is I included in my book, "How to Write a Gospel." When Herod was King of Judea there were wise men living in Jerusalem, sons of the People of the Scattering, and sons of the sons of families who had remained in Babylon to tend …

Continue reading An alternative nativity story for the run-up to Christmas

Well here I am, Folks, venturing into YouTube with a slide presentation (in two parts) of my Pathways to Freedom material. Please take a look and I hope you find it useful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw6E8GpTUlM&t=1346s

I have been thinking recently about the design argument for the existence of God and thinking that I might perhaps write something about it. This is just for starters, a setting out point in the the hope of gathering a little bit of feedback. The design argument is one which is so very easy to …

Continue reading Revisiting the Design Argument

Pathways to Freedom is now available on Kindle. You can find it here on my Amazon page along with all my other books: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Crompton/e/B001HP9S8M/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1  

Here it is, Pathways to Freedom, my newest book now available from Amazon. Pathways to Freedom follows on from the slide presentation which I gave at last summer's International Cultic Studies Association annual conference in Manchester. My topic then was Remote Control, an analysis of the ways in which people who leave the Watchtower movement …

Continue reading Pathways to Freedom

My writing at present is almost all centred upon a paper which I am preparing to deliver at the annual conference of the Internation Cultic Studies Assoiation in Manchester this summer. It’s on the topic of “remote control” - about the ways in which high-control groups like the Jehovah’s Witnesses which micro-manage the lives of …

Continue reading Work in progress

Here’s the listing at FeedARead for my book, How to Write a Gospel: https://www.feedaread.com/books/How-to-Write-a-Gospel-9781788763042.aspx