Living Democracy Joy Cowdery The First Amendment has two provisions concerning religion: the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. The Establishment clause prohibits the government from ...

Oklahoma House lawmakers have advanced a bill that would require public school districts and charter schools to create policies allowing a voluntary period of p ...

Sarah Mullally, a former cancer nurse who became a priest at the age of 40, walked into the cathedral to celebrate her ...

Getting your first period can come with a lot of conflicting feelings, from confusion and fear to excitement or relief. Knowing what to expect — as much as is possible — is one thing that can make ...

Last week, Dripping Springs ISD became the latest area school district to decline to implement Senate Bill 11 (SB 11), also known as the “Protecting the Freedom to Pray in Schools” act. SB 11 allows ...

Boerne Independent School District is one of a small group of school systems in the entire state — out of more than 1,200 districts and charter networks — looking to set up a voluntary daily period of ...

The Graham ISD Board of Trustees voted not to adopt a resolution to add a policy allowing a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text in public schools. The GISD administration ...

Dallas ISD on Thursday joined a list of school districts that have opted against creating a separate prayer period. A growing number of North Texas school districts have chosen not to set aside ...

Facing a March 1 deadline, most North Texas school districts have decided not to set aside time for prayer and scripture reading during the school day, citing a range of issues from finding designated ...

The Hindu Prayer Space on the University of Connecticut Storrs campus. The room is in Arjona Building, room 122, from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Photo by Sreeja Terala/The Daily Campus The first Hindu prayer ...

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect that Nexstar spoke with the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas. AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas school districts have until Saturday to vote whether ...

Hitchcock ISD has become at least the second local district to approve school-sponsored prayer times at all of its campuses, following a Feb. 2 vote under a new state law requiring school districts to ...