We’ll be on WVXU-FM 917 again tonight at 8 p.m. SEA joined Cincinnati Public Radio’s Cincinnati Edition today to talk about LifeWise, child safety, background checks, and the oversight gaps parents have been warning about for years. LifeWise declined to come on.We didn’t. Listen tonight at 8. https://www.wvxu.org/show/cincinnati-edition/2026-06-15/lifewise-staff-and-volunteer-charged-with-child-sex-crimes View original post on Facebook Read More

LifeWise keeps telling communities the same thing:“It’s separate from the school.”“No taxpayer money is used.”“Public schools just release the kids.” Okay. Then why do public school buses keep showing up in the records? SEA reviewed board minutes, contracts, emails, and transportation documents from multiple districts, and what we found blows a massive hole in the… Read More

Tune in to WVXU-FM 917 Cincinnati Edition today at 12:00 PM EST. Secular Education Association will join host Lucy May and WOSU Public Media reporter George Shillcock to discuss LifeWise Academy, the former staff and volunteer recently connected to charges involving crimes against children, and the urgent need for real oversight when outside religious programs… Read More

Tune in to Cincinnati Edition on WVXU today at 12:00 PM EST to join Secular Education Association co-founders and WOSU reporter George Shillcock as we chat with program host Lucy May about the former LifeWise employees that have recently been charged with crimes against children. Join the discussion and have your voice heard on this… Read More

When your kid comes home asking why they are going to hell…Or why you are going to hell…Or why their Jewish Uncle Larry is going to hell… 👏🏻You can thank the lawmakers who forced public schools to accommodate release time religious instruction. And when your kid comes home asking why your family is not a… Read More

Go ahead and add Moms for Liberty to the ever-growing list of concerning organizations, people, and political movements orbiting LifeWise Academy. Ooooh, but LifeWise isn’t political. Yeah. Sure sure. This is totally “neutral” Bible education. Mmmhmm. If they’re so neutral, their choice in friends is doing a terrible job of hiding it. Moms for Liberty… Read More

✳️This graphic is not a real photograph of LifeWise students being transported. The image is only illustrative. 🚨Public school teachers are telling us what this looks like on the ground.🚨 Not the polished marketing, not the pamphlets or the “documentary”.Not the church recruitment pitch or what they say to your chamber of commerce. Not the… Read More

Mmm. No. You’re not going to rewrite Westerville into a feel-good testimony about the power of “God.” Westerville was a community catching on. -Parents showed up.-Concerns were raised.-The school board listened.-Local control worked. (Isn’t that what they are always goin on about?) And LifeWise did NOT like the answer.But let’s be very clear about the… Read More

A few verified LifeWise billboards and community ads we’ve collected. Ohio. Wisconsin. Public roads. Public-facing ads. Public school students centered in the message. ✳️This is why we keep asking for documentation. These programs are not just quietly waiting for families to find them. They are advertising, recruiting, and normalizing religious release time as part of… Read More

They put a billboard outside a public school telling people to pray for LifeWise. Not pray for the students.Not pray for the teachers.Not pray for the families.Not pray for the school. Pray for the private religious program trying to pull children out of the school day. 👀 …And then they want everyone to pretend this… Read More

To parents:“Non-denominational Bible education.” To school boards:“Character education.” To lawmakers:“Released time religious instruction.” But at the Southern Baptist Convention this week, their own exhibitor listing described their work as: “Discipleship/Evangelism Ministry.” 👉That is the difference between instruction and recruitment. 🚨And the access point is public school children during the public school day. Full context in… Read More

LifeWise Academy was at the Southern Baptist Convention’s 2026 Annual Meeting and Pastors Conference this week in Orlando Florida. Notice their listing on the official exhibitor platform for the SBC conference? LifeWise’s “product”? The goods and services they are selling? “Discipleship/Evangelism Ministry.” Not character education, not religious instruction, Discipleship and Evangelism Ministry, inside our public… Read More

If PE matters, why are kids missing half of it for LifeWise? 🤨 If recess matters, why is it being used to catch up on work? 🧐 If classroom time matters, why are teachers being forced to rearrange the day around a private religious program? 🤔 Families can access church, Bible study, youth group, Sunday… Read More

This is what “released time religious instruction” looks like in reality. Not in theory. Not in LifeWise’s polished promo videos. Not in the talking points lawmakers repeat. In practice. 👉Students missing library, STEM, gym, music, drills, and end-of-day routines. 👉Staff having to stop what they are doing because an outside religious program keeps calling for… Read More

LifeWise is “non-denominational” …until you look at the curriculum. 👀✔️Their lessons come from The Gospel Project, a LifeWay/Southern Baptist curriculum. The Southern Baptist Convention is moving to formally write its ban on women pastors into its constitution. Which makes it especially rich that LifeWise relies on mostly women teachers to deliver that doctrine to public… Read More