Most of the recent discussions about teaching the Bible in school miss the key points. First, teaching the Bible in public schools is important for students because, without knowledge of the Bible, ...

Oklahoma's top education official ordered public schools Thursday to incorporate the Bible into lessons for grades 5 through 12, the latest effort by conservatives to incorporate religion into ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma – All Oklahoma schools are required to teach the Bible and the Ten Commandments in their curriculums as of Thursday evening. Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction ...

A new directive from Oklahoma’s top education official requires all public schools to teach the Bible and the Ten Commandments. It comes weeks after Louisiana mandated the display of the Ten ...

The state superintendent, Ryan Walters, said the Bible was a “necessary historical document.” The mandate comes as part of a conservative movement to infuse Christian values in public schools. By ...

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said that letting Oklahoma public school educators teach the Bible is a “slippery slope” if the teachers “may not be believers” themselves. Mullin, who sits ...

An unlikely book has been caught in the crosshairs of mass book removal by districts recently, one that is contrary to a Republican-led attempt toward censorship that frequently draws on Christian ...

Fresh out of graduate school, in my first faculty appointment as a professor of English, I was invited to teach an undergraduate course on “The Bible as Literature.” I’ve never stopped teaching it.

Digital Bible lessons can’t replace teachers passing on the faith. My church’s children’s ministry was looking for volunteers one Sunday. “There are scripts and a video you can use, and all materials ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...