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    'Leaving The Witness': The End Of The World As She Knew It, Upon Losing Her Religion

    Amber Scorah was a Jehovah's Witness and a missionary in China when she began to harbor doubts about the apocalypse. Disavowed by nearly everyone she knew, her memoir is a tale of starting over.
    by Rachel Martin Jun 05, 2019 4 minutes
    Amber Scorah writes about exiting the Jehovah's Witnesses in <em>Leaving the Witness.</em>

    As a third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah believed she had the answer to life's biggest questions. The answer was Armageddon, and it predetermined everything.

    "If the world is ending, why would you go to college?" Scorah says in an interview. "Why would you get a career?"

    So, she didn't. Instead, like every other member of the church, she dedicated her life to spreading the word.

    Scorah was married at age 22, and she and her husband moved to China to work as missionaries. Everything had to be secret — such preaching was illegal in China. And for most of her time in Shanghai, the work to save souls

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