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The Bible As A School Book
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A law can mandate lessons about communism’s atrocities, but it can’t answer a deeper question: what kind of people are our schools forming when Scripture is absent? We start with Deuteronomy’s charge to place God’s words in daily life and teach them to children, then trace how that ancient instruction collides with a modern public education system that often treats moral and spiritual formation as off-limits.
From there, we read Benjamin Rush’s 1798 letter defending the Bible as a school book and take his claims seriously, line by line. Rush argues that early Bible reading…
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