Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 2, 2020
Fighting the Erosion of Religious Freedom
Turns out they were attending a meeting of Baptist pastors at the hotel. Once we straightened out our respective denominational...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 19, 2020
Beware the False Prophets of Profit
Dr. Singer is long dead now, gone to whatever religion’s Hell will deign to accept her. But she has her disciples who carry...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 7, 2020
My Pianist
It was one of those moments in which every single second seems to last a painful eternity.
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Scientology Religion
February 7, 2020
The Naysayers and the Critics
You are talking to a percentage of the population that would hate YOU if you caught their attention enough.
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Religious Literacy
February 7, 2020
Theophobia 101, Part II: Theophobia Goes Global
Well, is religion that dangerous or irrelevant? Should we consider being evangelical about the gospel of Nothingness? Shall...
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Media & Ethics
February 6, 2020
What Stops Us From Hoping
It got me thinking: who actually works at tabloids like that? What are their story pitch meetings like? Do they know that...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 4, 2020
Next Stop: Tolerance
This is how it played out: At around midday on November 22, a passenger sitting in the train pulled out his phone to film...
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Media & Ethics
February 3, 2020
The Cult Recipe
I actually saw this question in an online forum the other day: “If I wanted to start my own cult, how would I do it?”...
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Religious Literacy
January 26, 2020
My Seasonal Pilgrimage: Coming Together, Coming Home
No one’s religion was cause for offense. No difference in color, social standing, job or education impacted the way we interacted.
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Scientology Religion
January 25, 2020
Don’t Scientologists Believe in Mental Illness?
The thing that Scientologists take issue with is the lack of science behind so much of the psychiatric community’s categorizations...
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Scientology Religion
January 21, 2020
New Year’s Resolutions Fail: Scientology Can Help
Sometimes the bar isn’t set very high, like the year my son said that his primary objective for the next 12 months was to...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 16, 2020
Who Loses When Scientology Wins?
Last week I had an unusual phone conversation with a client I’m doing some screenplay rewrite work for. He was somewhere...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 14, 2020
Are Christians Right to Protest Netflix’s “First Temptation of Christ”?
I made it 31 minutes in, to the scene that managed to insult Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Rastafarianism, and...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 30, 2019
Anti-Semitism and the Festival of Lights
When I was traveling through Arkansas with a business partner, our host pointed out a burned-out establishment and proclaimed...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 30, 2019
How Good People Can Become Bigots
If bigotry were simple, we would have already solved it. But it isn’t and we haven’t. So here’s a look at the roots...
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Religious Literacy
December 29, 2019
The Odyssey of the Soul, for When You Need Reassurance
There’s a Jewish legend about what happens to us before we are born. An Angel appears and introduces us to all the high...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 28, 2019
Is Intolerance on the Rise?
Then there have been a slew of high-profile tragedies including the New Zealand mosque attacks, the Easter Sunday bombing...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 27, 2019
A Tribute to Kayla Mueller
On August 3, 2013, Kayla Mueller was kidnapped by ISIS fighters outside of a hospital in Northern Syria. She had traveled...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 23, 2019
The Most Precious Thing
Nearly a thousand years ago a great army besieged a castle. Day after day, the army bombarded it with great boulders and flaming...
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Religious Literacy
December 20, 2019
100 Billion Reasons to Support Humanitarian Groups
Two things happened today that prompted this blog. 1. My Mormon neighbors invited me to a Christmas service. Of course I accepted...
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