Separation of Church and State

Arts & Culture Trey Kay,

Us & Them: The Church Lady

Are America’s schools hostile to religion? There’s been a tussle over this issue since the early 60s, when the Supreme Court ruled that prayer and school-sponsored Bible reading were unconstitutional.

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Arts & Culture Trey Kay,

Us & Them: The Church Lady

For this show, I spoke with journalist Linda K. Wertheimer, the author of Faith Ed: Teaching About Religion In an Age of Intolerance. In her book, she has…

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Us & Them's 'The Church Lady' Explores Church-State Separation in Public Education

The appropriate balance of religion in American public education is something that’s been debated since Horace Mann initiated the first public schools in…

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