🚨 Nearly one in three Toledo children lives in poverty, giving the city one of the highest child poverty rates in the nation. And LifeWise Academy Toledo is fundraising $1,600 for logos and decals on a bus—signing the appeal: “The kids of TPS thank you!” No. 😡 Toledo Public Schools’ children did not ask anyone… Read More

🚨 Never heard of “Them Before Us”? That’s cause you’re supposed to see the billboard—not the machinery behind it. 👀 Have A Gay Day recently drew attention to this billboard in Lima, Ohio. (It’s been spotted in Alabama too) Its weird, hateful, and divisive message is brought to you by Them Before Us—which presents itself… Read More

This is the LifeWise Summit. Today. “Children are cultural targets.” Not children to protect.Not minds to educate.Targets to capture. Their strategy is explicit: gain access to children, impose one religious worldview, teach that everyone outside it is more broken, immoral, depressed, divorced or criminal- and use those children to win a culture war. Public schools… Read More

🚨 We first published this document more than TWO YEARS ago. It deserves another look. LifeWise titled it: “BOOSTING ENROLLMENT.” And it lays out, in detail, how local programs should grow participation. Among the strategies: — Send students back to school with “Invite a Friend” flyers.— Offer treats or rewards for bringing a friend.— Give… Read More

🚨 What if your “choice” comes with a religion? Texas is now giving eligible families an average of $10,500 in public money to pay for private school. A new Houston Chronicle analysis identified 56 Houston-area private schools with tuition below roughly the value of that voucher. 👉Only one of those schools is secular.👈 The affordable… Read More

🚨 OHIO – Authorities are asking the public for information about an Ohio man accused of child sexual abuse material offenses—including whether he attempted to gain access to children through local youth groups. Phillip VanScoy, 32, of La Rue, has been indicted on multiple felony charges involving the alleged reproduction of child sexual abuse material… Read More

🚨 This is a LifeWise Academy class. “Do you know who the authority is over all the authorities?” “God.” Children are then taught that it is “really good for us to follow the people who are in charge of us” and that choosing to place yourself under the authority of others is called submission. Those… Read More

Did you miss our deep dive into this Kentucky school district? More often than not, administrators, principals, superintendents, and teachers are our eyes and ears on the ground. They understand when students’ First Amendment rights are being violated, and many quietly help expose what is happening. But sometimes, the very people families are supposed to… Read More

🚨KENTUCKY EXCLUSIVE: McCracken County Public Schools public statements about LifeWise don’t match its own records.🚨 📍On July 16, 2026, WPSD-TV reported that LifeWise had experienced “zero issues” and that it had “not been a burden to our school system in any way.”📍The article also quoted Superintendent Josh Hunt saying there were no additional schools before… Read More

🚨 The “not everyone gets a trophy” crowd is out here making up awards, and surprise! They win! And apparently “religious freedom” now means Christian nationalism. A conservative Christian legal group created its own ranking, rewarded Arkansas for advancing its preferred policies and declared the state “No. 1 in religious liberty”. Uhhh that is not… Read More

🧠Thought experiment: Imagine a law requiring private Christian schools to release students once or twice a week so they could attend an off-campus program teaching evolution, comparative religion, or secular ethics. The program is privately funded. Parents can opt in. It’s all perfectly legal. Would that make you uncomfortable?If your answer is yes, ask yourself… Read More

🎉GOOD NEWS FROM ARIZONA Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed SB 1741, the Arizona Released Time Education Act. The bill would have forced public school districts and charter schools to accommodate released-time religious instruction, required academic credit in some cases, and created a legal path to sue schools accused of violating the law. This was another attempt… Read More

🚫We are not anti-Christian.✅We are anti-exclusion. Public schools belong to Christian children, Jewish children, Muslim children, Hindu children, atheist children; and every child whose family believes differently. Protecting religious freedom means protecting all of them, not allowing one faith to dominate a public institution everyone shares. 👉👉Loving your neighbor means making sure their child belongs,… Read More

🚫Religious freedom does not require access to public-school children.🚫 Families already have churches, homes, weekends and after-school hours for religious instruction. The public-school day should belong to education, not recruitment. Freedom works both ways. If you wouldn’t want another religion using the public school day to reach your child, don’t ask for that privilege for… Read More

Originally shared July 5, 2024—and still worth revisiting! Since 2017, LifeWise has received 56 grants totaling $3,418,575. (Remeber this is over two years ago so it’s definitely more now!) Nearly $1.2 million came from the National Christian Foundation, one of the nation’s largest providers of donor-advised funds focused on Christian donors. NCF has also drawn… Read More