TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As much as Scientology is struggling and it suffers from horrible press and a terrible public image, its old-school methods still manage to bring in the curious. Why are we so easy to tantalize […]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: There’s more evidence that the activism by former staffer Alex Barnes-Ross has ‘enturbulated’ Scientology in major ways. Apostate Alex keeps pushing, and now he’s got the church in hot water over a barrier it […]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last time Scientology put out an issue of Advance! magazine with its popular feature ‘OT Phenomena,’ we complained how tepid the stories by Scientologists boasting about supernatural abilities had become. Were they listening? You […]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Tracey McManus let us know that she’s moving to the Dallas Morning News. We told her we’re thrilled for her career, but sad for the people of Clearwater and its environs in Florida, where […]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’ve come nearly a full year since Scientology leader David Miscavige began what appeared to be an effort to shake off the restrictions of the pandemic and restore some of Scientology’s previous traditions, including […]