What is Really in the 2023 Florida Social Studies Standards?
This post gives an original analysis of the Florida 2023 Social Studies Standards that have attracted so much attention and criticism.
This post gives an original analysis of the Florida 2023 Social Studies Standards that have attracted so much attention and criticism.
Often lost when we think about the Bible’s creation stories is the fact that they were written to inform the reader about the present and the world around. They weren’t written to falsify scientific explanations for how the world took its current form.
Lynn White got one big thing right. The environmental mess is Christianity’s fault. We can blame religion, yes Christianity, for allowing us to plunder the land, seas, air, and animals. Our religion has fostered in us a mindset that makes an ecological crisis, notably climate change, unavoidable. And importantly, if religion is at the heart …
By the beginning of the Second World War the Fundamentalist side of the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy felt that it had lost. The modernist/mainstream side controled the nation’s seminaries and mainstream churches. Landscape
In June 2021, the Florida State Board of Education banned florida teachers from using both Critical Race Theory and the New York Time’s The 1619 Project in their classrooms. Now, nearly a year later, Florida’s public school teachers are dispirited and unsure how or even if they can teach their students about slavery and the …