The Christopher Riggs issue is not isolated.
SEA has been warning about this exact problem since July 2024, when we raised concerns about Renee Beck. Now, in 2026, Christopher Riggs is the latest example.
In both cases, SEA raised concerns about people publicly connected to LifeWise programs. Not because we had special access. Not because the media handed us a lead. Not because LifeWise or a local school district alerted the public.
Because we looked. And in both cases, the information was publicly findable.
That should terrify everyone.
Public schools spend enormous time, money, and administrative effort trying to vet teachers, staff, volunteers, coaches, aides, contractors, and anyone else who may have access to children. We require background checks. We require policies. We require training. We require reporting procedures. We require supervision. We require accountability.
Because everyone understands the obvious:
Systems that give adults access to children must be treated as high-risk systems.
And when a program is built around removing children from public school during the school day and handing them over to outside adults, off school campus; the risk does not magically disappear because the program calls itself “private” or “religious.”
In fact, that kind of access can attract exactly the people public school safeguards are supposed to keep away. That is not anti-religious. That is child safety.
This is not about one person. It is not about one bad headline. It is about a system that depends on public school access, public school schedules, public school attendance structures, and public school trust while pushing oversight and accountability onto someone else.
If SEA can find serious public information with basic searches, why are LifeWise corporate and their local programs not finding it first?
Or are they finding it and moving forward anyway?
Parents deserve to know who has access to their children. School boards deserve the full picture before approving these programs.
And communities deserve watchdogs willing to ask the questions LifeWise, districts, and local officials should have asked before children were ever involved.
July 2024 Renee Beck post:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1E9r8DNVsq/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Christopher Riggs post:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CRZgsfpB6/?mibextid=wwXIfr
What people are saying:
- Secular Education Association: Search the names. Search the local boards. Search the churches. Search the businesses. Search the program leaders.
You do not need special access to start asking better questions.
SEA found both of these because someone looked closely at what was already public.
Now imagine what communities could find if every district had parents doing the same.
- Facebook User: Secular Education Association copied to share with post, thank you!
- Facebook User: Secular Education Association Ive done record searches online. Turns out tge record is in another County OR your County wont post protection orders publicly….BEWARE
- Facebook User: Facebook User
- Facebook User: Lifewise needs to be kicked out of school districts.
- Secular Education Association: Facebook User we need to spread awareness -the collective rage can help us reform these laws they have found loopholes to! Then maybe we can get them out completely.
- Facebook User: i was at panera bread in gahanna. A high school girl was ahead of me to pay for her bagel and coffee. A man in his mid late 30s came up and said oh I’ll pay that for you here have a gift card go ahead. You can have it and he had a LIFEWAY jacket and T-shirt on. I thought that was very peculiar.
- Secular Education Association: Facebook User VERY peculiar. We agree. May we republish your comment here without any identifying information?
- Facebook User: yes
- Facebook User: Facebook User it is peculiar. Self defense schools say tgat men are fully aware of females sense of frailty and danger. If a unknown man comes into your space in a parking lot at the grocery or like this man, treat him as a predator.
- Facebook User: Agree😡
- Facebook User: Facebook User Facebook User more
- Facebook User: Actual academies have their own buildings.
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- Facebook User: Sick
- Facebook User: Religion is the strongest indoctrination in a belief system our children face. It’s no wonder that building trust between kids and their innmost thoughts about the existence they are just starting to experience is an attractive venue for predation.
- Facebook User: I just watched a trial of a public school teacher convicted of six counts of sexual battery on two girls.
- Facebook User: If you think public schools REALLY vet EVERY teacher…you are part of the problem. https://www.wtap.com/2026/05/14/former-calhoun-county-commissioner-indicted-sexual-abuse-case/
- Facebook User: LifeWise started in my area. Its nothing but a White Christian Nationalism recruitment and indoctrination program. The bait for recruitment is getting out of school to participate. The kids who participate are sent back to school with orders to recruit – which they do.
- Facebook User: MAGA rapes kids.
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