Category: Education

Guest Column: Buddhist-Based Mindfulness is Not the Same as Christian Meditation

In previous posts, the American Center for Law and Justice has alerted you to the danger of mindfulness in schools, discussed the inherent Buddhist nature of mindfulness, and revealed the deception involved in getting these programs into schools. We thank you for rising to the challenge and partnering with us to eliminate this

Guest Column: Bias against Creation Museum evident in PBS Documentary (VIDEO)

Last month, The Cincinnati Enquirer published an article entitled, “The battle between evolution and creation,” about the showing of a supposed “documentary” on PBS entitled “We Believe in Dinosaurs,” which had little to do with the battle between evolution and creation. It turned out to be an agenda-driven propaganda piece focusing on dinosaurs

Ark Encounter and Creation Museum announce free admission to children in 2020 (VIDEO)

ONTARIO –Recently a mainstream media anchorman made inflammatory remarks belittling conservatives and evangelicals alike. According to one Ohio pastor, comments like these do not hold water in the shadow of one of the largest tourist attractions in the region. NBC News Commentator Chuck Todd is facing a storm of criticism

Madison clergy furnish school classrooms with “In GOD We Trust” posters (VIDEO)

MADISON TOWNSHIP — One school district at a time, framed depictions of the national and state mottoes are going on display in classrooms throughout North Central Ohio. This month Madison Local Schools became the most recent recipient of the displays given by two local clergymen. Pastor Robert Kurtz of Mansfield

Ohio school religious liberties one step closer despite destractors stretching truth (VIDEO)

COLUMBUS – When secular progressives are not in control, the distortion of facts is one of the oldest tricks in their book. Now they are hitting the books once again, this time involving religious freedom of students in public schools. Last week, the Ohio House of Representatives passed the Student

Area students hold prayer rallies in several school districts (VIDEO)

RICHLAND COUNTY — At a time when the nation’s legal system has demonstrated a history of hostility towards students unwilling to compromise their Biblical faith, students throughout the area showed their resolve Wednesday joining in the faith-based “See You at the Pole” (SYATP) prayer movement occurring on school campuses across

‘See You At the Pole’ set for Wednesday, September 25th (VIDEO)

NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — 2 Chronicles 7:14 is the theme for See You at the Pole (SYATP) 2019, which is all about students praying at their schools. The event is planned for Wednesday, September 25, at schools around the world. The event is more than just one day of prayer.

As state pioneer, Bellville Trail Life USA a good alternative to Boy Scouts (VIDEO)

BELLVILLE — Trail Life USA has become a formidable movement across the nation as a church-based, Christ-centered, and boy-focused alternative to the Boys Scouts of America (BSA). With a total of forty-five troops across Ohio, the Bellville Troop holds a moral compass and has become a trail blazer as the

Growing number of Ohio students competing in National Bible Bee (VIDEO)

ASHLAND — A local group of students participating in the National Bible Bee is reporting a dramatic increase in interest in Bible memorization, a shift being detected across the nation: a generation returning to the Bible. According to Hopewell Bible Bee Host Tara Beechy, “This year our local Hopewell Bible

Faithful chaplain a guiding light to Ashland University sports teams (VIDEO)

ASHLAND — For the thirty years Joe Maggelet has served as Athletics Chaplain at Ashland University, sports athletes all know their chaplain is in a league of his own when it comes to mentoring college students. “I first met Joe Maggelet in 1995 at chapel when I was a student

Outcry cancels two drag queen programs in Ohio libraries (VIDEO)

COLUMBUS — Two drag queen events for children have been cancelled in three weeks at Ohio public libraries. The events, which were designed to instruct children on how to become drag queens, were canceled after citizens, pastors, and elected officials spoke in opposition. Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, a Republican

Ohio Catholic School Sues City to Protect Civil Rights and Religious Freedom (VIDEO)

SOUTH EUCLID – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a small, Catholic college preparatory school filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to challenge an Ohio city’s ordinance that requires the school to violate its religious beliefs in employment, admissions, and other policies or risk fines and jail time. The Lyceum provides its students

Ohio student claims her school favors LGBT ideology over her Christian beliefs

LEBANON –A high school student in Ohio is claiming she does not have equal protections after she was suspended for putting Post-it notes with Bible verses on student lockers in her school in response to LGBT pride flags and posters being displayed in school hallways. The mother of Gabby Helsinger,

Ohio Christian Alliance calls for investigation of threats on Covington students (VIDEO)

CINCINNATI — In a press conference yesterday, the Ohio Christian Alliance (OCA), along with a coalition of religious, family and legal advocacy organizations, called for the FBI and Justice Department to investigate the dangerous threats that were made against the Covington Catholic Christian School students. This week the school was

Congregation supports schools and police for Hannukah

ONTARIO — Lights shone brightly this week along the Lincoln Highway as the area’s second public menorah lighting occurred at Sar Shalom Center for the observance of the eight-day festival of Hanukah.  The holiday is a celebration of an improbable military victory by the Jewish people in 165 BC and

Clergy report resistance to restroom mandate brought shower of blessings

MANSFIELD — The Bible is coming to life in North Central Ohio as area clergy believe they must obey GOD rather than Caesar. This past July, leading clergymen from over one hundred congregations in Richland County sent a letter to all nine school districts in the county requesting they defy

102 Ohio clergy advise local schools to defy Obama restroom mandate

MANSFIELD — Under a less than modest mandate, female students may soon see adolescent boys staring at them in their restroom mirrors at school. To combat political correctness gone amuck, the local faith community is telling school officials to stall. Clergy representing over one hundred diverse congregations recently sent a

Upperclassmen present “In GOD we trust” posters to Lex School Board

LEXINGTON — Several students representing a Christian student group, teamed with a local businessman and pastor, presented framed posters that acknowledge GOD to the Lexington School Board last week.  The collaboration believes that the philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in