Texas Public School Bible Courses: Christian Nationalism and Phony Quotations
Students in some Texas public school Bible courses learn that the Founding Fathers were largely orthodox Protestant Christians who intended for the United States to be a distinctively Christian nation...
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Texas Bible Courses: ‘Racial Origins Traced from Noah’ (continued)
When we published Reading, Writing & Religion II: Texas Public School Bible Courses in 2011-12, we expected pushback from some of the districts we discussed. But no one has protested more...
View ArticleThe Day My Son Was Taught ‘Bible’ in a Public School
What happens when public schools cross the line by promoting personal religious views in their classrooms? One Texas parent — a religious studies scholar — explains what happened to her family in this...
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TFNEF Report: Bible Curriculum Backed by Hobby Lobby President Would Lead to...
Hobby Lobby’s president Steve Green has sponsored the development of a new Bible curriculum, The Book: The Bible’s History, Narrative and Impact, that he reportedly hopes thousands of public schools...
View ArticleCan This Class Be Saved? ‘This Nation Is in Danger,’ Steve Green Says
Yesterday the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund released our latest report, Can This Class Be Saved? Authored by Southern Methodist University religious studies professor Mark Chancey, the report...
View ArticleCan This Class Be Saved? Bible Course Compares Book of Exodus to Infamously...
Hobby Lobby President Steve Green and the nonprofit he created, Museum of the Bible, insist that respected scholars helped create their new Bible curriculum. But Mark Chancey, a biblical scholar at SMU...
View ArticleCan This Class Be Saved? Bible Course Says Einstein’s Theory of Relativity...
Christian Creationists believe the Bible’s Genesis story of creation — that God created life, Earth and the rest of the universe in six days — is literally true. That certainly is not the belief of all...
View ArticleCan This Class Be Saved? Bible Course Teaches That Adam and Eve Were Actual...
How inappropriate for public schools is the new Bible course curriculum from Museum of the Bible, a nonprofit created by Hobby Lobby President Steve Green? As Mark Chancey, a biblical scholar at...
View ArticleCan This Class Be Saved? In All Aspects of Life, the Bible ‘Has Been Good,’...
In an earlier Can This Class Be Saved? post we discussed a speech by Steve Green from April 2013 in which the president of Hobby Lobby discusses his Museum of the Bible public school Bible curriculum...
View ArticlePublic School District Decides Against Controversial Bible Curriculum...
Following months of controversy, an Oklahoma school district has announced that it will not implement a new Bible curriculum that was the subject of a scathing report from the Texas Freedom Network...
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