Today, Benjamin Pietro Marcus, Religious Literacy Specialist with the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, shares concrete strategies for building a lesson enriched by religious studies.

Exposure to covid-19 wasn’t Aasta Deth’s concern for her two young children on the first day of school. Exposure to religion in their public school curriculum was. Deth, who lives in Harrison, said ...

The separation of church and state is a foundational American value. But what that means in practice can be blurry — as shown by the debate over a controversial new Texas public school curriculum, ...

Lecture Layne Little’s Religious Studies class was covering Jain and Buddism on February 20, 2020. Venerable Bhante Seelawimala, a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk of the American Buddhist Seminary, ...

Imagine a Protestant Christian parent removes their child from a school lesson covering the religious foundations of the transatlantic slave trade, claiming the content does not accurately portray ...

Texas’ education board voted Friday to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools, joining other Republican-led states pushing an optional new curriculum that could test boundaries between ...

A coalition of legal organizations on Thursday called on Texas school district leaders to reject the adoption of a recently approved state curriculum heavily infused with references to Christianity ...

Religious belief has inspired both armies and charities, politicians and prophetic voices that have shaped world history. Religions have provided the foundation for ethical behavior and in many ...

When Texas approved a new reading curriculum that features Bible stories in 2024, education Commissioner Mike Morath told districts they could adopt it, reject it or even adapt it to their own local ...

Oklahoma’s new head of education, Lindel Fields, is dropping an unconstitutional requirement for schools to teach Bible-based social studies lessons. The requirement — issued by the state’s former ...