AT 9:03 A.M., MILLIONS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN WERE SITTING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Some were doing morning work.Some were changing classes.Some were saying the Pledge.Some were watching televisions their teachers had suddenly turned on. Some were too young to understand why all of the air had suddenly been sucked out of every room. Why the adults… Read More

🚨 WHY DOES LIFEWISE WANT A CHILD’S HISTORY OF ALLEGATIONS? Take a step back and think about what this document is saying. A child makes an allegation against an adult associated with LifeWise. LifeWise says allegations involving sexual or physical abuse of a minor, or clearly criminal conduct, should be reported without first trying to… Read More

🚨 YOU DON’T GET TO DISCOVER THAT HARASSMENT IS WRONG ONLY WHEN IT HAPPENS TO YOU. NBC4 is reporting that Turning Point USA students at Ohio colleges say they are being mocked, intimidated and harassed on campus. Some of what was reported is ugly. 😔 But we’re not going to strip this story of its… Read More

🚨 THIS IS WHAT EXPANSION LOOKS LIKE BEFORE IT REACHES YOUR SCHOOL. This photo comes directly from LifeWise Academy’s “State of the Ministry” presentation. 👉 These are their numbers. Their pipeline. Their strategy. One year ago, LifeWise reported 823 districts with launch teams. 🚨 Now: 1,315. One year ago, 1,165 districts had 50+ petition signatures.… Read More

🚩 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