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Indie Scientologist running for Seattle city council on lingering anti-mask outrage

We’re always interested when Scientologists run for public office, which isn’t very often. In 2020, we wrote about a former Sea Org member running for city council in the Oregon town of McMinnville (she lost). There was a married couple who each ran for office in Nevada (one of them, Brent Jones, did serve as […]

PODCAST: ‘Chicago Fire’ star Christian Stolte on his Scientology experience

We had heard from some of you about our video interviews not going out on the usual podcast feed, so we think we have figured it out this […]

THE WITNESS: Damian Perkins opens up about how the case against Danny Masterson began

On March 19, 2015 at 9:44 in the morning, actor and dancer Damian Perkins received a text message on his phone from someone he had known only peripherally at the Church of Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity […]

Pete Griffiths on the unbearable rightness of being Scientologists

On a recent post of Scientology’s success stories from Advance! magazine, Pete Griffiths spotted a name he […]

Scientology fundraising is reaching epic levels of awesomeness, you doubters

Look, you doubters can tell us that Scientology is shrinking, it’s having a tougher time in the courts, it’s getting the worst press in years, and church leader David Miscavige is hiding under a bed somewhere. But the truth is, the fundraising going on for new ‘Ideal Orgs’ is just hitting its […]

A cry for help: Disturbing handwritten letter found outside Scientology ‘mecca’

Sunday, we received a message from a person in Clearwater we had heard from a few times […]

What’s up, Dave? Scientology still looks no closer to opening Austin and Chicago

At his New Year’s event, Scientology leader David Miscavige claimed that his “Ideal Org” program was coming back online after the pandemic, and that four new gleaming cathedrals would open just in the first quarter of […]

Scientology success stories are the bomb: But which continent is most on fire right now?

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: It turns out that Scientology is serving up different ‘success stories’ on its digital magazines depending on what part of the world you’re logging in from. We’d love to get your thoughts about which […]

Mark Bunker: Scientology is up to its old tricks in Clearwater

Just before we left Los Angeles after nearly two months there covering the Danny Masterson retrial, we thought we’d check in with Mark Bunker to see what’s been going on over on the other end of the […]

OT Phenomena: Ghost stories that entice Scientology members to pay millions

Here we go again, campers! Our thanks to the reader who sent in the new ‘Advance!’ magazine with its beloved feature, ‘OT Phenomena.’ We can’t get enough of it and we know you can’t […]

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