A number of former employees of the church have told ABC’s Lateline they were only paid a few thousand dollars per year for full-time work and had to resort to welfare payments to survive. The Church of Scientology claims people who sign up to work do so as volunteers.
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Scientology probed over underpayment claims
Marquette, MI Contact Information (906) 249-1431 loisr@lscchurch.org Position Description Children’s Ministry Director 5-3-10 Lake Superior Christian Church located in Marquette, MI is searching for a Children’s Ministry Director. We are a dynamic, contemporary congregation with an average Sunday Children’s Ministry graded worship attendance of 90
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Lake Superior Christian Church Marquette, MI Childrens/ Full Time
Australia’s industrial inspectorate has confirmed it is investigating the employment practices of the Church of Scientology .
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Fair Work Ombudsman looked into Church of Scientology
A day after City Harvest Church completed a massive five-day seminar which involved 30,000 people including foreign evangelists, police rounded up several individuals linked to the church for alleged misuse of church funds. The 17 people who are ‘assisting police with investigations’ included the megachurch’s founder and Senior Pastor Kong Hee, who was picked up early Monday morning.
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City Harvest Church under investigation by CAD and Commissioner of Charities
I’m pleased to guest post a contribution from Jon Rowe, who normally blogs at American Creation and at his own blog as well. Jon has done a lot of reading on religion and the American founding, and has the following thoughts on a popular history text, George Washington’s Sacred Fire by Peter Lillback, which has stormed from Glenn Beck’s show onto the top seller lists. On Glenn Beck’s show , they had the following conversation: BECK: Yesterday, it was like 475,000 on Amazon.com.
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George Washington’s Religion, the Founding, and the Perils of Glorified Self Published Books
It’s time again for me to dive into the old Armstrongist material from days long gone and pluck out some choice quotes for you. Today we will answer what a “generation” is according to Herbert Armstrong’s reckoning of time, and we’ll add more fuel to the fact that the much-hyped “prophetic understanding” was no understanding at all. “Only the Church of God has the Key of David which is the understanding of where Israel is today – Rev.
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A Generation Since the "Last Generation"
Phillips Brooks once famously defined preaching as “Truth through personality.” Today the word “personality” is sometimes used in a more restrictive sense to refer to the quirks of an individual. “Oh, that’s just his personality” we sometimes say. Now when it comes to preaching, there is a potential tension that can surface
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Personality Excuses
Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia are backing the family of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide the constitutionality of laws restricting protests at private family funerals. The respondent, Phelps, has staged loud protests with members of his Westboro Baptist Church at military funerals around the country.
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States Line Up Against Funeral Hecklers in Supreme Court Brief
Paul Harvey Today’s NY Times features a nice piece about Krista Tippett, host of the engaging radio program Speaking of Faith ( which we’ve featured a number of times on the blog, including reflections on the show’s programs about evolution and religion on television ).
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Speaking of Faith in the New York Times
Here is a list of those on the Anglican Communion Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order. Those highlighted in red would be reduced to consultant status (whatever that means) under the moratoria rule the Archbishop speaks of in his letter. The Most Revd Bernard Ntahoturi, Primate of Burundi and Chair of Commission The Rt Revd Dr Georges Titre Ande, Congo The Ven
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Who is on the Standing Commission on Unity Faith and Order?