Scientology Religion
April 29, 2021
It turns out that we were about to hear an extraordinary update on a project involving tens of thousands of hours from Church...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 23, 2021
Targeting people, especially strangers at random, to be punished simply because of how they look or where they come from is...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 29, 2021
It’s human nature to want to understand things. Our relentless curiosity is what drives us forward as individuals and as...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 26, 2021
I remember when I first became aware many years ago that there was a Wikipedia entry about me. It seemed, back in the burgeoning...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 28, 2021
People so often show their true colors during challenging times and, for most people, that means finding ways to succeed in...
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Scientology Religion
January 19, 2021
First, the diversity—people from all countries, races, languages, ages and professions. It was fascinating. Individuals...
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Scientology Religion
January 6, 2021
When it comes up in conversation with someone that I’m a Scientologist, I usually say to the person: “…and you’re...
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Scientology Religion
November 25, 2020
That idea is especially ridiculous because, as a person studies and applies Scientology to more and more areas of life, their...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 30, 2020
I’m done allowing my church—my friends, my family, my community—to be the punch line, or the recipient of hate speech...
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Anti-Religious Propaganda
September 15, 2020
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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Scientology Religion
August 29, 2020
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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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 26, 2020
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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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 13, 2020
It sometimes takes an extraordinary amount of courage and patience—and maybe even what some would call grace—to allow...
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Media & Ethics
February 6, 2020
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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Scientology Religion
January 25, 2020
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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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 14, 2020
I made it 31 minutes in, to the scene that managed to insult Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Rastafarianism, and...
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Scientology Religion
December 5, 2019
When I heard about the “OT levels” I was curious why much of it was kept confidential. Over time, I answered my own question....
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 10, 2019
We’re living in a time when it might be easy to lose faith in your fellow man. For centuries, the fearmongers have crowed...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 15, 2019
I wasn’t surprised to read that members got the idea from D. W. Griffith’s 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation. Fire...
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Religious Literacy
August 1, 2019
Damning headlines and unforgivable scandal have, in recent times, become synonymous in the media with the Catholic Church,...
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Religious Literacy
June 22, 2019
Artists bring their own special energy to that endeavor and deserve support and encouragement and validation. Here’s to...
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Media & Ethics
March 6, 2019
Objectivity in media is, based on my experience, a myth. Some groups and organizations are more altruistic and civic-minded...
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Religious Freedom
February 6, 2019
Reading this recent article about a jailed neo-Nazi trying to hide behind “religious freedom” to protect his hate speech...
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Scientology Religion
January 15, 2019
I thought back to close family members and friends who had spent time taking antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs...
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