Tag: yoga

Lexington Schools taken to task for instructing students to make idols for ritual in class

LEXINGTON — Education or indoctrination? The culture war continues to heat up in the classroom. In school, students are always learning new things by heart, and in some cases without the parents’ consent. This past spring, parents attended a Lexington School Board meeting complaining their son was instructed to participate

GUEST COLUMN: Does Ohio need an Education Emperor?

Ohio parents are stunned to learn that a complete overhaul of Ohio education is being proposed at the Statehouse with rushed hearings and little debate, during the lame duck session of the Ohio General Assembly at the end of 2022. It’s a bill that’s been around for a while but suddenly, it’s everyone’s top priority.

Former Ohio instructor calls term ‘Christian yoga’ stretching the truth

MEDINA — One former yoga instructor says some church-goers and school educators mistakenly believe yoga is just stretching. While stretching is beneficial, she says yoga is not good even if you slap the word ‘Christian’ in front of it. After having a radical change of heart, Amy Dudley says there

Critical mass in Buckeye Bible Belt play massive role in 2020 (VIDEO)(SLIDESHOW)

NORTH CENTRAL OHIO –Looking back at 2020, it is hard not to think of the role local evangelicals played in the region during the ‘crucible’ of a very chaotic year. While the heat has been turned up, a more resilient Church is being galvanized together by faith. The unforgettable chain

Yoga instructor sells property as effort to block Eastern Religion ensues (VIDEO)

MADISON TOWNSHIP — A yoga instructor has sold a fruit farm adjacent to an elementary school this past February and has left the area. Perhaps not coincidentally, the sale took place the same time area clergy were coordinating an effort to block Eastern Religion from being taught in public schools.

Several schools agree to bow out of yoga after clergy dissent (VIDEO)

NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — Many believe public schools stretching classes into yoga seminars is out of place. It is no surprise that some parents are doing cartwheels in reaction to a swift change of heart by school officials. After area clergy sent a letter to school districts about their objection