The Texas Board of Education worked late into the night Thursday on proposed revisions to the social studies curriculum, making it through Grade 8 but not yet into the most contentious debate, over high schools standards. Full sympathy and respect go to the Texas...
A Ten Commandments monument in Grayson County, Kentucky that had been ruled unconstitutional by a federal district judge was reinstated by a 6th Circuit appellate decision today. By a 2-1 vote, the panel determined that the message and purpose of the display was not...
Updating a story from earlier this month, the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has partially reversed its controversial ban on face coverings including the niqab worn by many Muslim women (including 2 students of the school). The rule went into...
The Houston Chronicle notes that the 15-member Texas Board of Education will hold an initial vote today (Thursday) on proposed changes to the social studies curriculum, including recommendations that Christianity play a far greater role in American History courses and...
The BJC's Brent Walker offers one of the saner takes I've read on the Brit Hume-Tiger Woods-Christianity controversy. From his Washington Post "On Faith" page: [I]f you do exercise your right to peddle your faith in the marketplace of ideas, you...
Via Religion Clause, William Wan reports that the President's Faith Advisory Council held a "lively debate" via phone conference yesterday as they begin the process of drafting a report. The primary issue under debate was whether religious organizations...
