Baptist Joint Committee executive director Brent Walker offers his views on the proper ways to use religion (and not) in the public school curriculum, in a new column for the Washington Post's On Faith site. Teaching about religion in the classroom is among many...
Via Religion Clause, Idaho's Nampa Classical Academy, a publicly funded charter school, has filed suit challenging state restrictions on using religious texts in its curriculum. The state's Charter School Commission previously issued a memo ruling the planned...
At the Pew Forum, professor Robert Tuttle is interviewed about the intricacies of the law in the area of parents who refuse medical treatment. Here, he lays out the basic consideration of religious exemptions. When an exemption clearly and specifically protects...
Sunrise Children's Services, formerly Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children, may be challenged in court by taxpayers objecting to the promotion of religion despite receiving public funds. David Friedman, representing the ACLU of Kentucky, said plaintiffs will argue...
At USNews, Dan Gilgoff explains how President Obama's Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships seeks to be both more active and less controversial than its predecessor. Bush's office sought to "level the playing field" for faith-based and...
