Joel Penton, the founder of LifeWise Academy in Hilliard, Ohio, talks about the program’s growth during an April interview. An Ohio House proposal to require school districts to adopt policies that ...

A House bill filed this week by a Republican lawmaker would require Kentucky public schools to allow outside moral ...

As a former educator fpr the Everett Public Schools, I was alarmed to read that the Christian LifeWise program, is being held off-campus for kids during the school day in some local elementary schools ...

The Tecumseh public school district is weighing how to handle “released time for religious instruction” after a few months of back-and-forth discussion over a proposal from the LifeWise religious ...

A LifeWise Academy bus, photographed on Sept. 19, 2025. LifeWise is a Hilliard-based religious instruction program that operates in 34 states and plans to enroll nearly 100,000 students during the ...

TIPP CITY — The LifeWise Academy, a Bible-based education program for children, will expand this month in the Tipp City Exempted Village School District to a second elementary school. The program has ...

A sea of red and black shirts have become a common sight at recent Westerville City Schools Board of Education meetings as the district grapples with the issue of whether to allow a program that ...

LifeWise, founded in 2018, is a division of Stand for Truth, an event-based nonprofit ministry with a mission to reach public school students. It offers Bible education during school hour that is off ...

TIPP CITY — After three extensive public hearings, the LifeWise religious education program received a city board’s permit approval to use a residence near Nevin Coppock Elementary School as its ...

LifeWise, a Hilliard-based organization teaching the Bible to public school students, slightly raised revenue in 2024 but also increased its expenses.

LifeWise Academy members portray themselves as innocent victims of a hostile Everett Public School board who are preventing LifeWise from eroding the separation of church and state. This becomes ...

An Ohio House proposal requiring school districts to allow students to leave school for religious instruction has focused attention on an organization with a rapidly growing presence in schools.