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.

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, ...

Kids Bible Lessons has introduced a new series of interactive Sunday school activities and Bible study lessons for children. This online platform aims to provide accessible and fun religious education ...

Texas education leaders are on the verge of giving their seal of approval to a controversial set of lesson plans that bring Bible stories into elementary classrooms. Many parents, public school ...

The letter to parents says this art lesson for kindergartners will “explore the many different things that inspire artists,” including “religious faith." Sounds reasonable enough. It’s only when you ...

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, ...

A new curriculum would focus on Christianity more than other religions. A kindergarten lesson on the Golden Rule, for example, would teach about Jesus and his Sermon on the Mount. By Troy Closson ...

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 ...

At this time of tremendous national polarization, it might seem counterintuitive to turn to religious freedom for guidance on how to overcome the deep cleavages in American society. The introduction ...

Voluntary instruction on texts sacred to faiths like Christianity will be allowed in Missouri school districts later in August, but the local effect isn’t clear yet. Gov. Mike Parson signed SB 34 in ...