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Report: Elisabeth Moss’s father still trying to get back in Scientology’s graces when he died

[Ron Moss]

In April 2022, the New Yorker magazine published a profile of actress Elisabeth Moss and interviewed former Scientology Celebrity Centre fixture Geoff Levin.

At the time, we gave the magazine credit for asking Geoff about Moss’s Scientology involvement, something Moss herself is generally not very talkative []

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38 years ago: The eerie Hollywood Palladium sendoff for Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard

 Thirty-eight years ago yesterday, Scientologists in the Los Angeles area were instructed to come to the Hollywood Palladium for a special []

PODCAST: The three lives of Dennis Erlich, Scientology’s original Internet nemesis

 November 1966. February 1995. December 2021.

Those are the three epochal turning points in a remarkable life that is the subject of this week’s []

You read about her encounter on a plane, now hear Tammy Synovec’s Scientology saga

 Tammy Synovec’s tale about sitting down next to a Scientologist on a flight out of Los Angeles generated a big reaction. For three hours, she had an opportunity she’d been hoping would happen for a long time: To talk to a current Scientologist about the problems she saw when she was a []

Andreas Heldal-Lund, 1964-2024: Our original story about Scientology’s ‘Lucifer’

[Andreas Heldal-Lund and Tory Christman, in Toronto in 2015]

In August 2022, we talked to Andreas Heldal-Lund about his diagnosis of terminal brain cancer, and we expressed how much admiration we had for this man of conviction. As ever, he was facing things with humility and wonder, and our esteem for him grew even []

It was a conversation about Scientology she’d wanted to have forever. And then it happened.

[Tammy Synovec]

It was an encounter she had hoped might happen some day, and she had even played it out in her mind, over and over.

And then, suddenly, it []

PODCAST: Apostate Alex helps us deconstruct David Miscavige’s recent speeches

 Twice now, we’ve partnered with “Apostate Alex” Barnes-Ross to bring you the speeches of Scientology leader David []

HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY, CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY

 Ah, what an auspicious day! Seventy years ago to this day, the very first “Church of Scientology” entity was incorporated, and it’s been a hell of a ride ever []

PODCAST: Apostate Alex exposes English mayor for sucking up to Scientology

 Alex Barnes-Ross, a/k/a ‘Apostate Alex,’ continues to be on a roll.

Fresh off of his success with his three days of protest at Scientology’s IAS weekend, he dug into one of the details of the third day, the Sunday charity []

Patty Moher drops in on the ‘ideal’ Scientology scene in New Haven

I went to the New Haven Org on November 6, a Monday morning. I was curious how they were doing on their “Ideal Org” []