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

Ted Cruz celebrates at his watch party in downtown Houston on Election Day. Credit: Annie Mulligan for The Texas Tribune Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the ...

The Bluebonnet curriculum, approved by the Texas State Board of Education, continues to sanitize slavery and be deceptive ...

The Puritans saw the Plymouth Colony as their promised land. That is why so many places in New England bear biblical names: ...

Aren’t we doing to Jewish people what we would not want done to us?” asked retiring State Board of Education member Pat Hardy ...

Christian nationalists have set up a test case on whether courts will allow them to destroy one of our country’s founding principles.

Governor Greg Abbott issued a statement commending the State Board of Education's (SBOE) passage of the Texas Education Agency's (TEA) Bluebonnet Learning reading and math instructional materials.

Texas State Board of Education narrowly approved a new elementary school curriculum that has drawn widespread criticism for ...

In a clear and blatant violation of the First Amendment; the State Board of Education has decided that Texas’ public schools need some Jesus. In an 8-7 vote, the approval of Bluebonnet Learning would ...

Critics say Bluebonnet Learning — which will be optional but which schools would be paid to adopt — inappropriately centers ...

Now, more than ever, America must cultivate our nation's future. As a parent of three, a military veteran and the Chairman of ...

Like a preliminary vote Tuesday, eight of the SBOE’s 15 members voted to approve Bluebonnet Learning, instructional materials proposed by the Texas Education Agency. Three Republicans joined all four ...