TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday Danny Masterson’s attorneys posted their appeal brief as they try to overturn his prison sentence. But even before Masterson was charged criminally, he and the Church of Scientology were sued civilly in 2019 by his victims. And it’s been slow going ever since. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Danny Masterson’s appellate attorneys turned in their appeal brief a couple of days early, and we knew you’d want to dig into it and give us your thoughts. So here’s the whole enchilada. It’s too big to fit in an email, so please come to tonyortega.substack.com to see the whole thing. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Christian missionaries, lured in by a restored L. Ron Hubbard property, put through staring exercises at the Harlem org, some books taken home, some restless leg cured. This is the way Scientology recruitment is supposed to work, people! ALSO: Tom Cruise gets a new medal! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading Miracle on 125th St: Christian missionaries provide Scientology a holiday PR victory!

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A question from a reader sent us on a wild goose chase into Scientology’s dim past in search of something L. Ron Hubbard supposedly said about his future in this galaxy. Finally, we retrieved it, and we know you’re going to want to see it! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading Why Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard isn’t coming back to Earth

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Another Scientology Christmas memory, this time thanks to ‘Apostate’ Alex Barnes-Ross, who tells us what happened one year when he tried to bring some holiday cheer to the London center where he worked, and ran into some Scientology bah humbug! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading O Christmas Tree: A Scientology yuletide miracle in Merry Old England