TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology tries so hard to get you to give up your current life, turn your back on family and friends, and start a new journey as an indentured servant to David Miscavige and L. […]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: On March 13 a prominent Scientology family got a shock: One of its own was sentenced to 25 years in prison. The case had gone entirely unreported in local news. But we’ve pieced together […]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology’s annual effort to turn Christmas into a recruiting event is pretty well known, but it also does what it can with Easter, holding an annual egg hunt in Florida to lure in new […]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday #Scientology members were asked to come down to their local ‘orgs’ to watch video of the L. Ron Hubbard birthday event filmed the week before in Florida. We have a couple of eyewitness […]

[Wings Hauser, 1980s]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Geoff Levin was close with actor Wings Hauser for more than 50 years, and they met in Scientology. With news of Hauser’s death at 77, Geoff shares details of their friendship in […]