SCIENTOLOGY PARENT

Scientology Made Me a Better Dad—But You Wouldn’t Know It If You Believed the Bigots

In those circles I’ve come under coordinated, continual and entirely unreasonable attack from people who have never met me or my children.

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 love with this new job of “dad” and utterly fascinated by how this parenting experience was shifting my own understanding of my religion. See, Scientology as a subject is all about helping people improve conditions they face in life, and who’s got more problems than a new parent? I had first shared own my faith online back in 1996 when I made my first webpage, so sharing my family experience seemed a natural extension.