I know, you're like, Sheesh, Bluebonnet, you're all about the churches nowadays. It is only coincidence that I post about two church-related events in two days.

Texas Freedom Network is hosting a presentation of their report regarding the Bible in schools on the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 31 at University Baptist Church.

Read this full post. You can read more about the report on their site.

Join hosts Congregation Agudas Achim, University Baptist Church and the Texas Freedom Network to hear the author of the report that has ignited a national debate over a widely used and deeply problematic Bible curriculum in our public high schools - Dr. Mark Chancey, religious studies professor at SMU.

Date: Wednesday, August 31
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Location: University Baptist Church, 2130 Guadalupe St.

The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund recently released a report evaluating the curriculum produced by the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools. Dr. Chancey's report found that this curriculum failed to meet even the most basic academic standards. Among its most egregious errors:

* citing a "respected scholar" who claims to have seen Jesus' school records in India;
* factual errors, including references to an urban legend that the story of the sun standing still in Joshua has been confirmed by NASA;
* a clear sectarian perspective permeating the curriculum.

While the report fully supports study of the Bible as an elective course in public schools, it makes clear such courses should be done with academically rigorous materials and in a nonsectarian fashion.

The response to the report has been overwhelming. The report has been discussed on national news networks, including CNN and MSNBC, and been reported prominently in the New York Times and in more than 240 news outlets around the country.

And now the debate is coming to Austin!

Read the report for yourself, and and hear Dr. Chancey present his report to the public: The Bible and Public Schools: Report on the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools.

The presentation is free of charge.