🚩 THE NAME CHANGES. THE NETWORK DOESN’T. Last stop: Idaho. Next up: ILLINOIS. Meet Illinois Family Institute. *Illinois is a little different from some of the states we’ve covered: Illinois Family Institute is not currently listed as an official Family Policy Alliance state ally. 🚩But it is still connected to the same broader national policy… Read More

🚨 LAPORTE, INDIANA: A 501(c)(3) AND A SCHOOL BOARD ENDORSEMENT Tonya James isn’t just a LifeWise supporter. She is the director of LifeWise Academy LaPorte and an administrator of its public Facebook group.And in that LifeWise Academy LaPorte group, she posted: “I encourage you to vote Ryan Seaburg for LPCSC school board.” LifeWise, Inc. is… Read More

This isn’t hypothetical. Nearly HALF of Muslim families with K–12 children surveyed in a 2025 national study said their children had experienced religious bullying in the previous year. And among the families reporting that bullying, nearly half identified an adult as one of the people responsible. Teachers. School officials. Parents of other children. Adults. Muslim… Read More

We’re incredibly grateful to the Freedom from Religion Foundation – Cincinnati Metro Chapter for awarding the Secular Education Association its annual Recognition $1,000 charitable grant and inviting our Executive Director, Molly Gaines, to speak at its August meeting. ❤️ It’s also an excellent reminder of why supporting your local and state chapters matters. 👏 These… Read More

🚩 HOW ARE KIDS SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHERE PUBLIC SCHOOL ENDS AND LIFEWISE BEGINS? We see this constantly. -Current public-school teachers.-Retired teachers.-Substitute teachers.-School staff and other familiar adults from the same communities. And then those SAME adults show up at LifeWise teaching the Bible to public-school students during the school week. 👀 This week, a… Read More

🚩 43% OF OHIO SCHOOL DISTRICTS NOW HAVE AN ACTIVE LIFEWISE ACADEMY CHAPTER. And LifeWise says 240 more Ohio chapters are already in process. According to new reporting from the Ohio Capital Journal, approximately 32,200 Ohio public-school students are enrolled in 267 active LifeWise chapters across the state. Only one Ohio county — Mercer County… Read More

🚩 THIS IS WHAT “RELEASED TIME” LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE. This is Akron Elementary in Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation, Indiana.And we really don’t need to explain the problem when LifeWise explained it for us: “Akron Elementary School LifeWise is losing many students to gym and other classes.” And then: “The teachers would appreciate not having… Read More

🚩 THE NAME CHANGES. THE NETWORK DOESN’T. Last stop: Hawaii. Next up: IDAHO. Meet Idaho Family Policy Center — Family Policy Alliance’s current Idaho ally. And Idaho is one of the clearest examples yet of why we are doing this series. Idaho Family Policy Center does not describe itself as some vague “family values” organization.… Read More

🚨 PIERRE DAMAS BEL SHOULD STILL BE HERE. Pierre was a recent Springfield High School graduate.Varsity soccer.JROTC.Scholarship recipient.Wright State student. He should bestanding at the beginning of his life. Instead, Ohio is mourning him. And we are angry. On Monday morning, Pierre pulled his car over on I-70 in Clark County, got out, and walked… Read More

🚩 LifeWise agreed to transparency. LifeWise still resists transparency. That is the issue. This organization wants parents and school communities to trust it with children during the public-school day — yet nearly two years after settling litigation over curriculum access, attorneys are still having to press for compliance. Trust is not something an organization gets… Read More

🚩 LIFEWISE, LAWSUITS & LIES. Before LifeWise sued our co-founder, they were not providing their complete curriculum to anyone — including parents whose own children were enrolled. Parents were expected to send their children out of the public-school building during the school day and simply trust LifeWise’s description of what was being taught. That is… Read More

🚩 ELGIN LOCAL SCHOOLS — MARION, OHIO An anonymous member of our private group gave SEA permission to share this photo from Elgin’s back-to-school open house on August 18. That is LifeWise Academy set up inside the public school gym, where families were there to meet teachers, drop off school supplies and prepare for the… Read More

🚨 INDIANA: THIS ISN’T MERELY “INAPPROPRIATE.” IT MAY CROSS MULTIPLE LEGAL LINES. A member of our community alerted us to this public announcement from LifeWise Whitko. 🚨LifeWise says its director and teacher will begin entering Whitko Jr/Sr High School in South Whitley during lunchtime to “build relationships” with middle-school students. Its classes have not even… Read More

🚩 PLEASE UNDERSTAND — The Seven Mountains Mandate is not about Christians peacefully participating in society. It is a dominionist idea that Christians should take control of the major institutions that shape society — government, media, business, family, religion, arts and education. Education. Your public schools. Your teachers. Your children. And four days ago, LifeWise… Read More

🚩 HAWAII: HAWAII FAMILY FORUM Hawaii Family Forum is the Hawaii ally in the Family Policy Alliance network — the same national network we’ve been tracing state by state. Family Policy Alliance itself lists Hawaii Family Forum as its Hawaii affiliate, and Hawaii Family Forum says it is also affiliated with Focus on the Family.… Read More