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.

It’s a good bet more Americans are able to name Santa’s nine reindeer than the Twelve Apostles. The United States boasts the highest rate of religious affiliation of the world’s developed nations, yet ...

Twelve-year-olds Kaisan and Naeem explain about studying their holy book the Qur'an, which contains the teachings of Islam. Suitable for Key Stage 2, First Level and Second Level.

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

The first time I went to the American Academy of Religion conference it really got my hopes up. This was the fall of 2006 and, with only a summer in between, I’d just finished college and begun my ...

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 ...

Oklahoma’s new head of education, Lindel Fields, is dropping an unconstitutional requirement for schools to teach Bible-based social studies lessons. The requirement — issued by the state’s former ...

Texas’ education board voted Friday to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools, joining other Republican-led states pushing an optional new curriculum that could test boundaries between ...

A proposal before the Texas State Board of Education not only threatens religious freedoms, it violates parents' ...