TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Christian missionaries, lured in by a restored L. Ron Hubbard property, put through staring exercises at the Harlem org, some books taken home, some restless leg cured. This is the way Scientology recruitment is […]

[Ron had his eyes on Target Two]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A question from a reader sent us on a wild goose chase into Scientology’s dim past in search of something L. Ron Hubbard supposedly said about his future […]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Another Scientology Christmas memory, this time thanks to ‘Apostate’ Alex Barnes-Ross, who tells us what happened one year when he tried to bring some holiday cheer to the London center where he worked, and […]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: You thought Scientology was going through a rough time? Think again, you doubter. We nearly overlooked it, but in the new issue of Impact magazine, there’s a bold recounting of the IAS’s history, and […]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Five years ago we were leaked a Scientology survey that suggested the church had plans for new books aimed at kids. Then we heard about a ‘first ever’ graduation for children held last night […]