Lawrence Wright is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas. In the introduction to his new book, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the ...

"The Forger" star calls his religion "misunderstood." — -- Actor John Travolta has three words of advice for those who question his religion, Scientology: Read a book. “You can read ‘A New Slant ...

Mike Rinder had spent virtually all of his life in the Church of Scientology. From the age of 6 he was raised in the church, eventually rising to become its chief spokesman. Everyone he knew was a ...

The documentary "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief" by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lawrence Wright, will open in ...

“Going Clear” – the title stands for an elevated state of mind in Scientology, in which a person is said to no longer suffer from unwanted emotions and painful trauma – is divided into three parts.

KCRW’s Kim Masters recentlysat down with author Lawrence Wright to talk about his new book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief. He described the leader of the church, L. Ron ...

Lawrence Wright's "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief" is a colossus of documentation, with 42 pages of endnotes, plus quite a few on-the-page footnotes, often in spots where ...