Education

If you could ask God any question and you knew He would give you an answer, what would you ask Him?

A few years ago, Christian apologist and author Lee Strobel said that in doing research for his book, The Case for Faith, he asked the Barna Group research organization to conduct a national survey among people across a spectrum of beliefs that asked that hypothetical question.

Strobel spoke about the results of that survey at an apologetics conference Saturday from Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch, Colo., and simulcast to more than 75 churches throughout the U.S., Canada, and Australia. He was one of four speakers at the event called, "The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask." more >>

Director and Producer Tony Malanowski is hoping to give families a deeper understanding and appreciation of American history and reinforce Judeo-Christian values with his docudrama series "America: Her Stories, Her People" and its first volume, "The Battle of Bunker Hill."

Malanowski and his production company, Light A Candle Films, will be launching a campaign this Spring to get a DVD featuring his docudrama and other materials out to the public.

"Right now what we are doing is setting up a campaign for the spring where people would be able to buy a screening license for the film," said Malanowski to The Christian Post. more >>

On average, whites do better in school than blacks and Latinos. This achievement gap is greatly reduced, however, among blacks and Latinos who have high levels of religious participation, personal religiosity and parental involvement, according to a study by William Jeynes, professor of education at California State University and senior fellow at The Witherspoon Institute.

Jeynes presented his findings at a recent Harvard University conference on race and education. The study is based upon a meta-analysis, Jeynes explained in a March 6 interview with The Christian Post, of 30 different studies measuring educational outcomes. A meta-analysis statistically combines the results of all these studies to demonstrate what a body of research says on a given topic.

Jeynes found that two factors, religious faith and a stable family, had the biggest impact on reducing the size of the race and ethnicity-based achievement gap. more >>

Leading Christian apologists Lee Strobel and Mark Mittelberg will kick off their series of live national and global simulcasts by discussing "The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask," which will be seen at more than 75 churches across the United States, Canada, and Australia, this Saturday.

Strobel and Mittelberg will be joined by university professors Craig Hazen and Douglas Groothuis at Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch, Colo., to present "powerful responses" to six of the top questions that plague Christians today.

Organizers of the event say the speakers' answers will be biblical and backed up with logic and evidence. more >>

A Rhode Island city will be paying the American Civil Liberties Union $150,000 in legal fees after having lost a months-long prayer banner case against them.

The case involved a prayer banner that hung at Cranston High School West, which was declared unconstitutional. Cranston School District Chief Operating Officer Raymond Votto disclosed the amount, which was meant to cover the expenses of the case.

"We are very pleased that we were able to resolve the lawsuit without the need for further appeals. The settlement provides our client with all of the relief she sought when she first filed the lawsuit," said Steven Brown, executive director for the Rhode Island ACLU, to The Christian Post. more >>

The documentary "IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America" recently won the Jubilee Award as the Best Documentary at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival.

The producers of the movie have hopes that it will help move Christian children into K-12 Christian education and homeschooling, as many Christian leaders and pastors are giving up on conservative public school reform.

Doug Phillips, president of Vision Forum, stated at the film festival that "this [film] is the tool for which we have been waiting for the last 20 years." more >>