🚨 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

NEW ALBANY, OHIO — The irony here is hard to miss. LifeWise Academy featured this family standing in front of what appears to be Church of the Resurrection – New Albany, a Catholic parish in New Albany, while praising LifeWise for teaching children that they do not “take off their Christian hat” at school. But… Read More

🚨UPDATE: Former LifeWise teacher Christopher Riggs sentenced to prison. Christopher Riggs, a former LifeWise Academy teacher and Zanesville (Ohio) pastor, has been sentenced to 17 months in prison after pleading guilty to gross sexual imposition and two counts of voyeurism involving a minor. He will also be required to register as a Tier I sex… Read More

🚨 INDIANA: This is what privatization looks like. You’re paying for it, so you should know about it! Beginning with the 2026–2027 school year, Jay County Christian Academy says Indiana’s Choice Scholarship will fully cover its tuition- leaving families with only a $100 enrollment fee. 👉No income limit. No requirement that the student ever attended… Read More

Whenever someone mentions candy, prizes, or incentives used by LifeWise, we’re told: “That doesn’t happen.” Meanwhile… Local LifeWise programs are publicly asking supporters to donate bags of candy because they use it for “a lot of fun events.” Candy by itself isn’t the issue. The issue is pretending these incentives don’t exist while simultaneously asking… Read More

🚨 Did you know SEA has a nationwide Released Time Religious Instruction (RTRI) Law & LifeWise Lobbying Map? Most people don’t know whether their state:🔴 Requires public schools to excuse students for released-time religious instruction. 🔵 Allows local school districts to decide. ⚪ Has no specific released-time law at all. Even fewer know where LifeWise… Read More

Every time someone comes onto this page calling us “secularists,” “godless,” “the devil,” or enemies of Christianity, they are not just insulting atheists…or revealing that they misunderstand Satanists. 👀 (And yes, we have valued members from both communities.) 👉They are insulting MANY Christians who believe government should not impose religion. 👉They are insulting Jewish, Muslim,… Read More