The Texas Education Agency has acknowledged that students who opt out of the Bible-based lessons could still be tested on the ...

Historians tell us that literacy in the Mediterranean basin at the time of St. Augustine was somewhere between 5 percent and 15 percent. In other words, news in antiquity—be it the good news or ...

Texas is right to include the Bible in school instruction because biblical literacy is essential to understanding American ...

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This is allegory; it doesn’t read according to the plain sense of Jesus’ words. Augustine’s interpretation is dismissed ...

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Reader's discuss the importance of bad people in our society, and the impending effects of Texas incorporating the Bible in ...

There is absolutely no doubt that one of the major reasons the Left hates Christianity is that conservative, Bible-believing ...

Students will learn that life circumstances are beyond their power to change. They will learn that their place in the economy ...

A recent Texas State Board of Education decision requires all public school literature classes in grades 1 through 12 to ...

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The vote marks the latest in a series of Republican-backed efforts to expand the role of Christianity in Texas public schools, following measures requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in ...