The long-dormant idea of teaching public school students about the literary and historic importance of the Bible is getting a fresh look this year from state legislatures and local school boards - ...

AUSTIN (AP) - Some 60 public school districts across Texas offer courses on the Bible, but at least a third aren't meeting state requirements to be unbiased and academically and legally sound, a study ...

Escambia County Public School students may soon have the option of attending off-campus religious classes during school time. Early next year, LifeWise Academy, an interdenominational Christian ...

Todd Steenbergen teaches “The Bible and its Influence” at Barren County High School in Glasgow, Ky., on April 18. (Sam Mallon/For The Washington Post) AS ONE of the most consequential books of all ...

Here in Appalachia’s Bible Belt, conservatives in the Legislature want to force all West Virginia public high schools to teach Bible classes, as occurs in several other Republican-controlled states. I ...

The Supreme Court barred devotional Bible reading and recitations of the Lord’s Prayer in public schools in 1963. But the ruling also said courses about the Bible were permissible, so long as they ...

Corrections & clarifications: This column has been updated to correct the sponsor of the 2013 Texas study and the journalist who wrote about Bible instruction in Ohio. The Supreme Court barred ...