Robert J. Nash is a professor of leadership and developmental sciences at the University of Vermont, Burlington. He wrote the 1999 book Faith, Hype and Clarity: Teaching About Religion in American Schools and Colleges (Teachers College Press, 1998).

Mark Chancey is associate professor of religious studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas who has written about teaching the Bible in public schools.

Jon Butler is emeritus professor of American studies, history and religious studies at Yale University. He co-edited Religion in American Life, a 17-book Oxford University series that treats religion as an academic subject for children and young adults.

Elizabeth Ridenour is president of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, whose goal is to introduce a state-certified Bible elective into public high schools nationwide. See a list of its advisory board and board of directors. It’s based in Greensboro, N.C.

The Texas Freedom Network offers a timeline of the battle regarding censorship of school textbooks in Texas.

Read a Nov. 6, 2004, Dallas Morning News story posted by the Seattle Times about the outcome of the Texas vote.

The Bible Literacy Project offers a list of biblical terms teens should know versus what they do know.

Read a March 29, 2006, New York Times story about Georgia becoming the first state to approve the Bible as a textbook.

Read an April 2006 Washington Monthly profile of Randy Brinson, one of the primary advocates of “The Bible and Its Influence.”