DALLAS - Virtually every week for the past 70 years, Bessie "Betty" Marie Criswell has taught the Bible. During those decades, she married, raised a child and lived in three Southern states. She has ...

Miss Kendrick came ready, with props. The day’s topic was the Gospel of Matthew. “You can divide all the Beatitudes into two parts,” Jennifer Kendrick explained to her teenage audience. “The ‘Blessed ...

I’ve taught religious studies at Indiana University for many years. My classes are about human activities—literature and ethics and rituals—and not about the truth or falsity of beliefs. But I know ...

A Missouri bill lays out a plan to let more public schools to teach the Bible, but designing a course that respects students’ First Amendment rights can be tricky. Missouri lawmakers crossed party ...

DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I've been teaching a junior high class for five years in our church, and I'm about to give it up. I don't think I'm doing any good, because the kids spend half their time asking ...

The Me Too movement has empowered many survivors to speak up about the sexual abuse and assault they have experienced. What was once secret, and consequently enabled and viewed as acceptable, has been ...

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — It never got old. No matter how many times one crammed into the modest sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church, there was always some wisdom to be gleaned from the measured, ...

Editor’s note: This story originally published Dec. 25, 2023. It was updated Sunday with the news of President Jimmy Carter’s death. Jimmy Carter gave his last Sunday school lesson several years ago, ...