Promoting her new memoir, Leah Remini explained why she cut ties with the Church of Scientology in an interview that is making waves online today. Also in the religion and spirituality round-up is author Joan Chittister who opened up about her passion for creating a better world for women.
King of Queens star Leah Remini is taking aim at Scientology in her memoir Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (Ballantine, Nov.). Promoting the book, the actress told ABC News that part of the reason why she left the Church of Scientology had to do with famous Scientologist Tom Cruise.
During an interview with RNS about a biography on her, Joan Chittister: Her Journey From Certainty to Faith (Orbis, Oct.), Benedictine nun and author Joan Chittister opened up about her life-long crusade for the role of women all over the world. “I see my sisters do the most beautiful things every day of their lives. I never hear them complain,” said Chittister. “I said to myself, ‘What do I do?’ And this is what I can do.” Listen to Chittister discuss her new book on PW's Faithcast podcast.
Following Borders, Hastings, Waldenbooks, and more, Christian Publishers Outlet is the latest local bookstore to close in Springfield, Mo. "After 25 years of ministry to the Ozarks, and such it has come to time we move on to greater ministries," said Bruce Erdel, owner of CPO, according to the news website KY3.
Catherine M. Wallace, author of Confronting Religious Denial of Gay Marriage: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination, challenged Catholic views of contraception. The piece includes Wallace’s research from her book and presents a case that safe sex is moral.
