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Light to Break the Darkness. Merry Christmas
We string Christmas lights, burn yule logs, and light Chanukah candles and in some of the more northern communities, we set huge bonfires ablaze in the streets. We formalize these expressions through our religions.

December 23, 2019

Christmas Love and Religious Hate
In a small town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in the midst of the yearly Christmas celebration, anti-Semitism rears its ugly head. A young woman handles it with grace.

December 11, 2019

When Psychiatry Confines Someone Without Due Process it is Human Trafficking
You can see it on Scientology TV at will. It is part of the Voices for Humanity series, and is called simply, "Voices for Humanity: Justin Drach". There is an active chapter of CCHR in Tampa, and one in Clearwater.

November 14, 2019

Scientology TV: Past, Present and Future - TAMPA
On Monday 4 November 2019, the Church of Scientology of Tampa celebrated the history of Ybor City and showed the way to the future.

November 8, 2019

Population Control Threatened by Freedom of Religion
This is manifested particularly in the prohibition of the right to assemble. Not surprising, since power is generated by two or more people working together, and it multiplies as each person joins; wherever two or more gather in His name...

November 8, 2019

Hate Won't Make You Happy revenge is pointless
Every one of us was given birth. In whatever circumstances, happy or sad, with joyful ease or painful effort, with financial plenty or deep poverty, every one of us was born of woman.

November 4, 2019

Broken People Broken Hearts Broken Minds
Broken hearts, broken minds, broken people are everywhere. In the wash of life and living, many are left stranded and alone while the tide carries most of us onward.

November 1, 2019

When Breath is Lethal
First responders, relief providers, long term recovery workers; we depend on all of them in times of catastrophic destruction.

October 29, 2019

Terror and Torture are not Help Shock therapy
The elderly woman was crying, at first quietly, and then more loudly, as the certainty of where she was going set in. Gasping, she was saying "No!! No!!" as best she could before be breaking down into whispers of "Please, please no..."

October 25, 2019

Families fall apart, explode, drift apart, implode...
There are times, from the position of "child" that one tries to hold things together, to get the grown-ups to use love and not anger to speak to each other and to the children.

October 22, 2019

Interfaith Tampa Bay 2019 Celebration, Week 360
On Sunday, 20 October 2019, Interfaith Tampa Bay celebrated the opening of Interfaith Week 360 at the Unitarian Universalist Church in St. Petersburg, FL.

October 21, 2019

Closer to the Heart, the Deeper the Anguish
A group or an individual will often use emotion, its variety and depth, as a gauge of the importance of something. We all like to talk about how feel about things.

October 18, 2019

After Dorian, Help to the Bahamas from Tampa Florida
Hurricane Dorian devastates the Bahamas and Volunteer Ministers from CSDR (Churches of Scientology Disaster Response) are among the first on the ground to help!

October 14, 2019

Happiness entwined in the Human Race
What do you think? How intertwined is your happiness with the wellbeing of anyone else?

October 12, 2019

System Disrupted By Fire...
A system, most simply, is a state or condition of harmonic orderly interaction in a composite whole.

October 4, 2019

Destruction Results in Resurgence in the Bahamas
Fall is a season of change. A season of renewal for school kids and a sea son of glorious flourish before rest for most of nature.

October 3, 2019

Life. Survival. Creation. Hope. Beauty. Faith. Joy. Love. Happiness
On Grand Bahama all of these are in resurgence. These characteristics help individuals rise from the storm wrought chaos

September 28, 2019

Disaster Can't Kill the Bahamas
The people of planet earth are generous. There were warehouses full of food, water, supplies, and clothing sent from all these people, from all around the world to Freeport, Grand Bahama.

September 26, 2019

Happiness is coming back to the Bahamas
The Grand Bahama Island shows its beauty through the rubble and disarray, despite the power lines that block roads and the shelves that have empty spaces.

September 21, 2019

In Even Disastrous Circumstances, helping Cures the Helper
After multiple changes of plans due to the unpredictability and general difficulty of traveling in stormy weather after disasters, I began my journey to the Bahamas.

September 15, 2019

HURRICANE DORIAN RELIEF
Scientology Volunteer Ministers have become indispensable in times of greatest human need—traveling across the state or even halfway around the world to help people who have lost everything in an earthquake, hurricane, flood or the like.

September 12, 2019

Scientology Volunteer Ministers: People Helping People
Dorian hit the Bahamas; ruin and destruction are everywhere, People are frantic,hungry ,thirsty and searching for shelter. It is a wild scene in every sense of the word.

September 11, 2019

Dorian Yes or No? Prepare Anyway
30 August 2019, Dorian threatens Florida. With the uncertainty that is a hurricane, Floridians all over the state scramble to Board up, stock up, and batten down.

August 30, 2019

Family Makes You Bleed, But Love Is Hell
And then mankind. Do we love us as a whole, an entirety? Are we all creations of, children of God? How can we rise above petty thought, to reach a level of greatness that is part of our inalienable nature?

August 30, 2019

Who is the Real Mass Killer? Opioids!!
And who is behind the manufacture and distribution of these synthetic pain killers? Why, Big Pharma of course. It all comes back to money. Greed.

August 23, 2019

World Humanitarian Day , Tampa Church of Scientology and Councilman Orlando Gudes
The Councilman from District 5 of the City of Tampa recognized the Volunteer Ministers of the Church of Scientology for their work in the community of Tampa Bay and beyond in honor of World Humanitarian Day.

August 21, 2019

Chuch of Scientology of Tampa joined Volunteer Ministers of Florida sponsored the first ever Children's Day Festival
8 June 2019 we played! five more non-profits gathered to have a classic American family summer part, with music and games, magic and face painting. There was a crowd of 302 people, almost all children.

June 14, 2019

Soul Mates; Worth the Trouble?
Some people touch your soul more directly than others. The lucky ones have these connections in abundance.

June 14, 2019

Persons of Goodwill, Human Rights
All work toward true human rights is welcome and of incalculable value. But this actor is a true Crusader, and the first recipient of a truly significant award. It is my opinion that he was the inspiration for that award.

June 7, 2019

Learn to Recycle! Save the Planet !
On Wednesday 5 June 2019 from 11:30 a.m. to i:00 p.m. the Church of Scientology of Tampa is hosting a luncheon to forward the maxim: Safeguard our environment.

June 1, 2019

Ordered by God to Love We Create War:Why?
Every major religion on this earth holds it to be true that God loves his people and wants us to love one another.

June 1, 2019

Memorial day article
It is a great tribute to all who have left the battlefield without their bodies that we live well today and create tomorrow.

May 25, 2019

Tampa Bay Hurricane Season is Here
The Atlantic Ocean is warm already along the Florida coast. Summer is here and with it the beginning of Hurricane Season.

May 17, 2019

The Devastation of Passion
Passion is powerful, intense emotion of any kind. It carries us into action. It can define our life. It can exalt or shatter lives.

April 26, 2019

Escape from Tyranny now
This is April. It is Spring. We are in the season of rebirth and spiritual freedom. We are in the season of escape from tyranny, from slavery, from mortal flesh.

April 19, 2019