Welcome back to the State of Faith — and I hope everyone had a restful Thanksgiving! I had a much-needed break and am excited to get back to making sense of how people understand, and live out, their faith and spirituality.

In Ohio, lawmakers passed a new bill that authorizes public school and state university teachers to instruct on the “positive impact of religion on American history.” The bill doesn’t mandate the positive instruction and framing, but aims to remove fear of violating the church-state boundary that teachers might feel when they discuss religion in class.

The bill originally referred specifically to Christianity, but an amendment in the House Education Committee expanded the language to include the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Known as the “Charlie Kirk American Heritag

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