Religion News Service columnist discusses Texas' newly adopted rules for teaching about the Bible in public schools.

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Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said that letting Oklahoma public school educators teach the Bible is a “slippery ...

Texas has approved Bible-based teachings for pre-schoolers. Children as young as five years old will be taught stories from ...

School districts serving more than two million elementary-school children would be able to adopt a curriculum that draws on ...

The move follows a complaint from a parent that the King James Bible has material unsuitable for children. Utah's Republican government passed a law in 2022 banning "pornographic or indecent ...

Mullin, who sits on the Senate committee that oversees education, said that he wants his kids to know the Bible, “but I want it to be taught by someone that was taught the Bible themselves ...