Today, Benjamin Pietro Marcus, Religious Literacy Specialist with the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, shares concrete strategies for building a lesson enriched by religious studies.

It’s a good bet more Americans are able to name Santa’s nine reindeer than the Twelve Apostles. The United States boasts the highest rate of religious affiliation of the world’s developed nations, yet ...

A short animated film narrating the Christian story of Easter. This short film will be relevant for teaching KS1 and Early and 1st Level Religious Studies.

Lecture Layne Little’s Religious Studies class was covering Jain and Buddism on February 20, 2020. Venerable Bhante Seelawimala, a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk of the American Buddhist Seminary, ...

Religious belief has inspired both armies and charities, politicians and prophetic voices that have shaped world history. Religions have provided the foundation for ethical behavior and in many ...

Officials in Texas have backed a controversial new public school curriculum that would incorporate Christian lessons from the Bible as early as kindergarten. Eight out of 15 state school board members ...

The first time I went to the American Academy of Religion conference it really got my hopes up. This was the fall of 2006 and, with only a summer in between, I’d just finished college and begun my ...

Texas education leaders are on the verge of giving their seal of approval to a controversial set of lesson plans that bring Bible stories into elementary classrooms. Many parents, public school ...