Big Spring, Texas / / September 12, 2025 / Wordsmith World Key Summary Start with structure: Understanding Biblical timeline and historical context makes individual passages easier to grasp and ...

Last month, the state Supreme Court ruled that Walters couldn’t force schools to accept his requirement. In June 2024, ...

The Oklahoma Supreme Court had given new Superintendent Lindel Fields two weeks to decide on the 2024 mandate on teaching the ...

The author of more than 100 titles said, “You need to know God’s Word, and there are basics,” starting with how to mark up the text. The morning that Kay Arthur died, a woman led a Bible study using ...

Most of the recent discussions about teaching the Bible in school miss the key points. First, teaching the Bible in public schools is important for students because, without knowledge of the Bible, ...

“The study of Scripture and the love of theology can’t be limited to just one of the two genders.” Preparing a message of biblical exposition isn’t a task confined to one gender, even for ...

An old joke has deceased people of all stripes mingling in heaven, save for Catholics. They get their own room, St. Peter explains to a new arrival, for their peace of mind: “They think they’re the ...

Last week, 12 Republican representatives in the Iowa Statehouse introduced a bill that would allow public high schools to offer a class on Bible literacy as a social-studies elective. The move has ...

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(The Conversation) — In the days since Oklahoma’s state superintendent, Ryan Walters, ordered school districts to teach the Bible, he’s been defending his mandate. For example, he claimed in an ...