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