by Bob Allen | Oct 23, 2006 | News
The second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention is a strong supporter of a movement to urge parents to pull their children out of public schools in favor of homeschooling or private Christian schools. Wiley Drake, the third-highest elected officer in the...
by Bob Allen | Oct 19, 2006 | News
Resolutions calling for an “exit strategy” from public schools will be submitted at every state and regional convention in the continental United States this fall, advocates of the “exodus” movement announced Wednesday. Members of a Southern...
by Jim West | Oct 11, 2006 | Opinion
Terry Redmon is an activist trying to persuade the school board Wilson County, Tennessee, to implement a “Bible elective” course to help students understand the Book’s impact on world history. At face value this would seem to be remarkably important,...
by Bob Allen | Sep 25, 2006 | News
A Southern Baptist columnist dismissed a recent magazine cover story suggesting that schools are pushing children too hard and too soon toward academic achievement but bashed public education as hostile to Christianity. “[A]ll this hand-wringing over whether...
by Bob Allen | Sep 20, 2006 | News
A majority of Bible classes taught in Texas public high schools lack safeguards to protect the separation of church and state, according to a study by the Texas Freedom Network. The report, Reading, Writing and Religion: Teaching the Bible in Texas Public Schools, by...
