Secular Education Association

🚨 We keep seeing the same pattern: public school entanglement with LifeWise Academy. These are two separate examples from two separate districts. In Metcalfe County Schools in Kentucky, the March 2026 board minutes list “Micah Fields – LifeWise” alongside district and school reports. This LifeWise update includes enrollment numbers, middle school expansion planning, LifeWise team… Read More

🚨 What permanently disqualifies someone from working with children in LifeWise? That should be an easy question. One year ago, the LifeWise state director for Oklahoma was asked about background checks. His answer should alarm every parent. He explained that some checks come back with “flags” when something has not been resolved yet. Then he… Read More

🚨Micah Beckwith For Indiana’s Islamophobia MUST be publicly condemned. On Eid, Beckwith used his public platform to tell Muslims in Indiana that he hopes they all become Christian. That is not religious freedom.That is full on Christian supremacy. That is a public official looking at an entire religious minority community and saying: you would be… Read More

🚨 Fuck Representative Gary Click’s crusade against public schools. This is not one bad bill. It is a pattern we are so tired of seeing. Gary Click has made a career out of using the power of the state to push his religious and political agenda onto other people’s children. He backed Ohio’s forced released-time… Read More

🚨 One year ago, the LifeWise state director for Oklahoma was asked about background checks….His answer should terrify everyone who cares about kids safety. He said some checks come back with “flags” when things have not been resolved yet.Then he said: “We’re forgiving people.” And if someone has “been to the courts and dealt with… Read More

Discover how to safeguard children from potentially harmful programs like LifeWise. Learn proactive steps to inform parents and school officials about risks and prevent unwanted sign-ups. Sarah interviews the founders of Secular Education Association about the news story that multiple former LifeWise workers were charged with underage sex crimes. We need to do what we… Read More

🚨 This is why public oversight matters. WSYX ABC 6 is reporting that a civil lawsuit in Delaware County alleges a former Vineyard Church pastor groomed and abused women who sought counseling through the church. The lawsuit also claims church leadership either knew or should have known he lacked formal counseling training and had previously… Read More

Witness firsthand how powerful reps in Ohio’s legislature shut down dissenting opinions through intimidation. This has led to many harmful laws being passed at the state level across the country. Catch the full Project Next show out now about former LIfeWise employees being arrested for sex crimes against minors. View original post on Facebook Read More

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🚨 LifeWise appears to have used a children’s field trip to erase the persecution of other religions and tell kids only Christianity matters. LifeWise Academy–Patrick Henry publicly posted that an adult was “attending a field trip with our 3rd and 4th graders” at Sauder Village. According to LifeWise’s own post, that adult used the trip… Read More

Zach tells Sarah about how LifeWise Academy teaches kids as young as 4 Christian Nationalism type propaganda. Then when these kids enter high school, they will be more susceptible to follow groups like Turning Point USA. Catch the full show about the recent arrests of LifeWise employees charged with sex crimes against minors. View original… Read More

This is not an Ohio problem. LifeWise Academy is expanding across the country – and there’s a good chance it is already in your state, your county, or even your local school district. That is why SEA matters. The more people who understand what released-time religious instruction is, how it operates during the public school… Read More

Justice Hugo Black tried to warn us in 1952. In Zorach v. Clauson, the Supreme Court upheld released-time religious instruction -but Black dissented. And his warning could have been written for what we are seeing in 2026… “New York is manipulating its compulsory education laws to help religious sects get pupils. This is not separation,… Read More

🚨 This should alarm every parent, teacher, administrator, and school board member. SEA has published a new public resource documenting LifeWise safety concerns, including criminal cases, vetting failures, child-safety incidents, leadership judgment concerns, host-church problems, and concerning affiliations connected to LifeWise Academy. This is not one isolated incident.It is not “just a few bad apples.”It… Read More

This Memorial Day, we remember the people who gave their lives for this country. Not for one religion.Not for one political party.Not for one version of America. They served a nation built on the promise of liberty- including the freedom to believe, the freedom not to believe, and the freedom to raise our children without… Read More