Alabama Prescribes a Bible Textbook
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The state's school board has approved a text for studying the Bible's influence on history and culture, which is not the same thing as Bible-study. Will other states follow suit?
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Texas education officials on Friday  approved health textbooks for high school students that extol  the virtues of sexual abstinence but only make passing mention  of contraceptives, which critics say violates state regulations  and endangers the health of teens.
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Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK As readers praised and criticized yesterday's delivery of New Testaments along with home-delivered copies of The Gazette in Colorado Springs, the International Bible Society confirmed that it wants to do a similar distribution with other newspapers.
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By Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 20--A 78-year-old author in Georgia sells books teaching that the Earth is the center of the galaxy, that modern science is all a Satanic lie and that evolution is a Jewish belief that promotes one-world government.
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South African Christians seeking a  quick spiritual boost will be able to download the entire bible  on to their mobile telephones phones from Wednesday as part of  a drive to modernize the scriptures.
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As college students nationwide settle into class routines this month, many of them are feeling the lingering pinch of an unexpected bill: the high price of college textbooks.
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Description: A lawsuit challenges disclaimers stuck on biology textbooks containing evolution theory in Georgia&#39;s affluent Cobb County.
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A small publisher of college textbooks plans to offer free electronic textbooks to students. The catch? Ads are inserted within the text.
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To middle school teacher Chad Pavlekovich, most science textbooks are dull and lack the context students need to understand scientific principles. That's why he is exposing students in the town of Salisbury on Maryland's Eastern Shore to three new textbooks that are unorthodox in concept, appearance...
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- When the idea for a proclamation declaring Christian Heritage Week came up in 1994, Jim Guy Tucker, the Democratic governor of Arkansas, would not sign it. His aides said he did not think it was appropriate to honor a particular faith.
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First, Georgia's education chief tried to take the word "evolution" out of the state's science curriculum. Now a suburban Atlanta county is in federal court over textbook stickers that call evolution "a theory, not a fact." Some here worry that Georgia is making itself look like a bunch of rubes or, worse, discrediting its own students.
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PEARLINGTON, Miss. -- The two-by-fours  inside the walls of George and Margaret Ladner's new home are inscribed with biblical verses, each written by one of the Alabama schoolchildren who raised money to buy the lumber.
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CHICAGO -- Interested inmates at Newton Correctional Facility in Iowa receive teaching material that declares: "Criminal behavior is a manifestation of an alienation between the self and God. Acceptance of God and Biblical principles results in cure through the power of the Holy Spirit. Transformation happens through an instantaneous miracle; it then builds the prisoner up with familiarity of the Bible."...
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A public school has stirred debate over whether it can teach Hebrew without violating the church-state divide.
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The sacred text of the Mormon faith,  one of the fastest growing churches in America, will be  published by a mainstream publisher for the first time next  week after nearly two centuries of being handed out for free.
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James Dobson, one of the nation's most prominent evangelical Christian leaders, is about to endorse former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, The Associated Press has learned.
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By Mike Monson, The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.  Sep.