Some schools, boards of education, and state legislatures have considered introducing courses on the Bible in public schools. In order to provide guidance on how this might be done consistently with ...
Many Texas public school districts continue to teach Bible courses with “blatant religious bias” and sometimes even discredited urban Bible myths, according to a report released Wednesday afternoon by ...
On April 14, the school board in Mustang, Okla., voted to institute an elective Bible course. This is not news. More than a thousand U.S. public schools offer Bible as literature courses. But the ...
It looks like a scene out of Sunday school -- students in a southern Orange County classroom huddle over Bibles as teacher Ryan Cox guides them in analyzing the relationship between God and Satan. “If ...
Corrections & clarifications: This column has been updated to correct the sponsor of the 2013 Texas study and the journalist who wrote about Bible instruction in Ohio. The Supreme Court barred ...
For forty years I helped start school every morning. Although I never was a paid employee of our public school system, I showed up daily at Amarillo High School to teach the academic Bible course. In ...
The long-dormant idea of teaching public school students about the literary and historic importance of the Bible is getting a fresh look this year from state legislatures and local school boards — ...
About 10 to 15 school districts in Kentucky offer Bible literacy courses. A bill introduced in the 2020 General Assembly would replace them with classes on ‘various religious texts’ of the many ...
>> LET’S LOOK AT THE COURSE OVERVIEW. TAGGART: IT’S NOT YOUR TYPICAL PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL CLASS. >> INSTEAD OF CHOOSING AN ELECTIVE LIKE SPANISH OR GYM OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THEY CHOOSE THE BIBLE.