Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 22, 2020
“Educated” Hate—Like That of NY Times’ Amanda Hess
Yes, chatty little “everyone-knows” assertions can develop into virulent violent acts of rage with the turn of a page,...
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Scientology Religion
September 18, 2020
Reflecting on a Decade Writing About My Religion
Ten years ago, I was a new daddy. With a year-old daughter and my wife and I expecting our second, I was simultaneously in...
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Anti-Religious Propaganda
September 15, 2020
Why Hate Promoters Like Alex Gibney Should Be Held Accountable
I’m not sure what was worse—having to tell him or seeing his muted reaction. He’s 14 now and I’ve had to explain this...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 10, 2020
Leah Remini Exposed by Anti-Scientology Guru
If you won’t believe the Church of Scientology when it says Leah Remini is lying, perhaps you’ll believe Marty Rathbun,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 7, 2020
Get With It, America—a Teenager’s Appeal for Religious Tolerance
With everything going on in the world right now, it is time to change. It is time to stop condoning discrimination of any...
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Religious Freedom
September 6, 2020
What Does a Cathedral on Fire Have To Do With You?
It was April 2019, the beginning of Easter celebrations in France. That’s when, to the world’s horror, the 850-year-old...
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Religious Freedom
September 4, 2020
A Bittersweet Anniversary: What Was It With Germany?
Three generations earlier the grandparents of the Germans who affirmed our right to believe had engaged in an attack on a...
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Scientology Religion
September 3, 2020
What’s It Like To Have a Scientologist Parent? According To My 12-Year-Old, “Absolutely Amazing”
Being a mom is my very favorite job. Full disclosure: I wasn’t sure I wanted to be a mom. I love my work and did not know...
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Scientology Religion
September 2, 2020
Portrait of a True Leader: David Miscavige
One can spot a true leader miles away. Their certainty of ability, humbleness in accomplishment and compassion for the whole...
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Religious Freedom
September 1, 2020
Religious Freedom in Australia: The Vestiges of Intolerance Resurface
Religious intolerance is an old story in humanity, nearly as old as religion itself. But tolerance is old too: Cyrus the Great,...
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Scientology Religion
August 29, 2020
Scientology vs. Science Fiction
I was born in the South. There’s a kind of running joke about how someone in the South can insult you so politely you’re...
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Religious Freedom
August 27, 2020
Will the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Sex Discrimination Affect Religious Freedom?
The case has drawn considerable attention not only because of the fate of plaintiff Gerald Bostock, a Clayton County employee...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 26, 2020
Why Would Anyone Attack Scientology?
When I first got involved with Scientology, I had to wade through misinformation to really understand what it was and what...
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Anti-Religious Propaganda
August 25, 2020
Leah Remini: Without Scientology “I Would Probably Be an Animal”
It’s an eye-opener to discover that Leah Remini’s “Premath” had an entirely different script. Before Remini unleashed...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 13, 2020
Disney: It’s Time to Pull the Plug on A&E
The loss in viewership, attributed to A&E’s cancellation of its police show, Live PD, exposed a suppurating inoperable tumor...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 7, 2020
Who Are the People Who Trash Religion, Anyway?
A brief glance through the Renaissance reveals so many examples of art and architecture created in honor of and inspired by...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 1, 2020
Flipping the Bigots
When he awoke the following morning, #JewishPrivilege was again trending on Twitter, but not because of the anti-Semites who...
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Media & Ethics
July 22, 2020
Woke Beyond Repair: Where Cancel Culture Falls Short
We’re living in strange times. As a virus sweeps through the world, people’s stress level has reached a boiling point,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 13, 2020
The Real Divide in America, and Where We Go From Here
It sometimes takes an extraordinary amount of courage and patience—and maybe even what some would call grace—to allow...
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Religious Freedom
July 7, 2020
Does Religious Freedom Have a Place in the Death Chamber?
Watching a condemned person die by hanging was once a public spectacle. Today, that is not the case—there is no entrance...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 24, 2020
Scientology is Fun—The Sequel
That Scientology is fun is one of those things that’s so obvious and normal to those who actually know and practice it that...
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Religious Literacy
June 19, 2020
Ken Chitwood: A Voice for Religious Literacy
As I dug deeper into his website I discovered a 28-minute video clip of a talk he gave several years ago at the Messiah Lutheran...
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Religious Literacy
June 19, 2020
The Role of Religion in a Coronavirus World
Fear breaks down a man’s sense of brotherhood. Make a man afraid, and he takes refuge in superstition.
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