{"id":26661,"date":"2026-07-03T19:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26661"},"modified":"2026-07-03T19:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:38:28","slug":"texas-institutes-bible-passages-into-its-public-school-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/texas-institutes-bible-passages-into-its-public-school-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Institutes Bible Passages into Its Public School Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five million children will get to hear the gospel because of a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sboe.texas.gov\/state-board-of-education\/sboe-2026\/sboe-2026-june\/june2026-sboe-agenda.pdf\">state book list\u00a0<\/a>approved in Texas for public schools.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Texas State Board of Education voted to codify a proposed list of required reading that would eliminate titles such as \u201cRomeo and Juliet,\u201d \u201cThe Great Gatsby\u201d and \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird,\u201d and introduce the text of the Bible instead,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/25\/us\/texas-schools-book-list.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s1A.pElm.SNquRN8zQurQ&amp;smid=url-share\">reported<\/a>\u00a0The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonstand.com\/article\/texas-institutes-bible-passages-into-its-public-school-reading-list\">washingtonstand.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five million children will get to hear the gospel because of a new\u00a0state book list\u00a0approved in Texas for public schools. On Friday, the Texas State Board of Education voted to codify a proposed list of required reading that would eliminate titles such as \u201cRomeo and Juliet,\u201d \u201cThe Great Gatsby\u201d and \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird,\u201d and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/texas-institutes-bible-passages-into-its-public-school-reading-list\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Institutes Bible Passages into Its Public School Reading List<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6W1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26662,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26661\/revisions\/26662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}