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We’re listening live to today’s oral arguments about Scientology’s ‘religious arbitration’

[Attorneys Marci Hamilton and Andrew Brettler will be speaking today]

Today at 9 am in Los Angeles (noon here in New York, 4 pm in London) we’ll be listening in to the livestream at California’s 2nd Appellate District as oral arguments are presented about Scientology’s “religious […]

The fulfilling life of a Scientologist in a chaotic world

The second week of March in 2020, as the pandemic was hitting the US, she was aboard the Freewinds in Curaçao.

An OT Scientologist, she’s very dedicated to the church, and she posts about it fairly frequently on Facebook, giving us a look at how the last couple of years has […]

Kirstie Alley, the Scientology Celebrity Centre, and that time we lost a teenager

[The Hollywood Celebrity Centre]

“Where’s my thisther?” I asked the lady on the other end of the […]

What you aren’t going to hear at this week’s appeal of Scientology ‘religious arbitration’

[Chrissie Carnell-Bixler and Danny Masterson will both be represented by attorneys Tuesday]

On Tuesday, attorneys for Danny Masterson’s accusers will get the chance to argue to a California appellate court that a lower court ruling forcing them into Scientology’s “religious arbitration” and derailing the lawsuit they had filed against Masterson and the Church of Scientology is […]

After a year and a half, Scientology’s cruise ship finally sails — to Curaçao drydock

[The Damen repair docks, the ‘Antillia’ drydock is the long narrow one.]

What do you know. We take our eyes off of the satellite tracker for a few days, and Scientology’s private cruise ship the Freewinds moved on […]

Israel’s Ministry of Justice threatens to ‘dismantle’ Scientology’s Tel Aviv Ideal Org

[The Tel Aviv-Jaffa Ideal Org at its 2012 opening]

We just became aware of some interesting reporting in September by Israeli journalist Nir Ben-Zvi which revealed that Israel’s Ministry of Justice has threatened to “dismantle” the Ideal Org in Tel […]

Scientology holds its ‘Writers of the Future’ awards out of season, but same lavish display

Our readers know that as far back as our Village Voice days, we’ve been trying to warn the science fiction/fantasy world that “Writers & Illustrators of the Future” is a lavish and expensive contest because Scientology uses it to burnish the reputation of L. Ron Hubbard and, by extension, the church […]

What’s happening right now in Scientology’s independent ‘Freezone’

Yesterday, Chris Shelton gave us another interesting look at what “new religious movement” academics are up to in regards to Scientology. And this time, he looked at a professor who, according to his own bio, has made a bit of a name for himself examining the […]

Religion professor complains that no one wants to hear the good news about Scientology

Chris Shelton continues his look at the state of ‘religious studies’ attitudes about Scientology by working through a new issue of the journal Implicit Religion. Go here for his first and second […]

Scientology wanted to make him their next superstar: The strange death of Kuba Ka

Over at the Daily Beast today we have a bizarre story that took us some while to put together: The macabre details in the death of Jakub Stepniak, the entertainer we knew as “Kuba Ka” when we wrote about him for the first time in […]

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