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Hurry, Scientology Needs Your PR Help!

On Sundays, we enjoy showing you the latest Scientology mailers and fliers that have been forwarded to us by our worldwide tipsters network.

This week, we have another entertaining collection of what we call Sunday Funnies, including a call for help that indicates just what sort of trouble the church finds itself in these days. We []

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Sunday Funnies: Get Your Infant Audited!

On Sundays, we love to reveal the latest Scientology mailers and fliers that have been going out to members, encouraging them to give, give, give until it hurts.

This week, we have a particularly special item to begin this week’s collection. You might remember, last summer, when Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes split, reporters were asking []

Marisol Nichols prepares for her greatest role: Scientology space cadet!

On Sundays, we like to reveal to you the wackiest Scientology e-mails, fliers, and other come-ons that were sent out to church members during the past week. And this week, the most exciting news that they received was about one of their celebrities, Marisol Nichols.

Nichols reached new heights of fame after her role as Special []

Sunday Funnies: The Grant Cardone Is An Asshat Special Edition!

On Sundays, we love to bring you all the best that Scientology has to offer. The fliers and mailers and announcements about its good works around the globe.

It’s become a highlight of the week here at the Bunker, and we hope you enjoy this week’s offerings, which are brought to us by our tipsters []

Tom Cruise Can Raise the Dead! …And More Scientology Sunday Funnies

Add this to the list of amazing things actor Tom Cruise can do with his Scientology superpowers: he can revive the dead!

We’d heard about this 1972 lecture by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard — it’s one of the more notorious ones and has been referred to numerous times both before and since the Internet came []

Super Sunday Funnies: Live-Blogging Scientology’s Super Bowl Ad!

NOTE: Live-blog entries show up at the bottom of the page.

Two weeks ago, Scientology came through on its promise to air its “Knowledge” ad during the AFC Championship — at least in some cities. We saw it here in New York, and it turned out to be a 30-second ad which is also on the []

Sunday Funnies: Africa is Done!

It’s time for another look at the fundraising fliers and other come-ons that Scientologists received this week. On Sundays, we like to post the items that our tipsters have forwarded to us, so we can get a snapshot of what church members are getting hit up for at the moment.

This week, there are so many []

Sunday Funnies: Scientology Says It Bought a SUPER BOWL Ad!

On Sundays, we bring to you the latest fliers and mailers and e-mails that Scientologists have received as the church encourages them to donate to one campaign after another. It’s dizzying to keep up with all the requests for cash that church members get hit up for, and this week we received a lot of []

Scientology Getting It From All Sides: The Tampa Bay Times Looks at 2010 FBI Investigation

The Tampa Bay Times has published the first half of a two-part series on what happened to the 2010 FBI investigation into Scientology.

We wrote our own story about that in March 2012. We found that despite talking to many ex-church members who alleged human trafficking abuses, the FBI lost steam and its investigation resulted in []

Sunday Funnies: Scientology Finds a Better Use for ‘Dianetics’!

Once again, our tipsters have come through and we have a fun collection of Scientology wackiness for you this Sunday morning.

We’re kicking things off with some news from Taiwan, where David Miscavige’s church has been making a major push in recent months.

We’ve seen the boasting about a new Chinese-language translation of Scientology’s essential texts (“the []