After 33 years as a Scientologist, the past 13 as the star of Scientology’s recruitment video, Larry Anderson is walking away. He says the church failed to deliver the spiritual gains it promised.
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Star of Scientology recruitment film wants his money back
Trust me, I am aware that the Eastern Orthodox Churches have some rites that are unique and, to the eyes of outsiders, may seem a bit on the wild side. I mean, watch the video attached to this post, which focuses on traditions — I stress that they are what we call “small-t traditions” — observed by some Orthodox believers during the recent “blessing of the waters” celebrations of Theophany (called Epiphany in the West). It is one thing to see people jumping into blessed waters as they observe these traditions in, well, South Florida
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‘Orthodox’ complaint by reader
Without hesitation, if you were to ask me, “HiScrivener, what music do you prefer when you need a quick pick-me-up,” I would answer before the first verb came out of your mouth. Sure, I like some old school hip-hop as much as the next (or even Nu Soul), but that’s not it. I fancy some New
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Cross Eyed: Would Jesus Wear a Rolex?
You don’t see 2,000-word stories in newspapers every day, so when you do, the editors probably deem it an important story. The Des Moines Register gave several inches to a reporter to explain how Susan McIntyre, a transgender social worker, was fired from her job as a housekeeper at the St
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Transgender + Catholic = story
Today is a partial repost from Randy Alcorn’s blog . Today “Sunday, January 24, is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday; marking the 37th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v
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Truth telling on the sanctity of life
The Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 imposes most of the restrictions found in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights and in the 14th Amendment on Tribal governments. However, it does not impose Establishment Clause limitations on tribes. This has permitted the tribal government of California’s Rincon Indian Band to pay $3.2 million in tribal funds derived from Harrah’s Rincon Casino to rebuild an expanded Catholic Church on the Rincon reservation
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Tribal Government Funds Rebuilding of Catholic Church On Reservation
Our friend Linda Graham just got back from Haiti. Here is her awesome story at the airport and at church. Others have written articles about the work she did there, having arrived merely forty minutes before the earthquake struck
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Linda Graham on Haiti’s devastation
U.S.-based International Christian Concern said the January 17 violence in the city of Udaipur in Rajastha beganwhen members of the radical Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsavak Sangh raided the Faith Calvary Church prayer meeting armed with machetes, axes and sticks “and proceeded to beat Pastor Surajth Bhagari and church members of the church.” Christians comprise just over two percent of India’s mainly Hindu population of nearly 1.2 billion people, according tothe United States Central Intelligence Service.
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Hindu Militants Attack Prayer Service; 11 Injured
One of two brothers sentenced to death in Contra Costa County in 2005 for slaughtering five people in a bizarre murder-extortion plot designed to hasten Christ’s return to Earth has been hospitalized after apparently trying to commit suicide. The man’s brother has enlisted him and a roommate in a cult-like plot to train Brazilian orphans to slaughter the leaders of the Mormon Church so he could become its prophet and “transform America.”
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Cult murder-extortion brother attempts suicide
Michael Emack, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , pleaded no contest to the accusation of sexual assault of a child Friday, was found guilty and was sentenced to seven years in prison. Emack is the third of 10 FLDS members indicted, with trials scheduled to go on through December
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FLDS sect member pleads no contest, sentenced to seven years