Bibles in Texas Schools? - Ep. 28

Texas just approved a mandatory reading list for over five million public school students — a 9-4 party-line vote on June 26, 2026 — and for the first time in American history, it includes required Bible passages, straight out of the King James Version. Nearly 200 texts, far beyond the one-work-per-grade minimum the law actually requires. A lot of Christians — most conservatives, most people who voted for Trump — are celebrating. I'm not one of them. In this episode of Say Something, I dig into why a believer — a preacher, even — can look at a state-mandated Bible curriculum and still say "not like this." We talk denominations, translations, the Establishment Clause, why our own ancestors fled a state-run church in England, and why the gospel was never supposed to travel through a school board gavel. If you've cheered every headline about the Ten Commandments in classrooms, chaplains in hallways, and now this reading list, I want you to sit with one question before you cheer the next one: whose Christianity gets to be the official one? This isn't an argument against Scripture in the hands of kids. It's an argument for keeping that Scripture in the hands of the church, the family, and the Holy Spirit — not the state. Faith that's forced isn't faith. It's compliance. And compliance never saved anybody. Whether you're a lifelong believer or you've never opened a Bible in your life, this one's for you. Because the real answer to a godless culture was never gonna come from Austin. It was always gonna come from us. Texas Bible reading list, Texas school board Bible mandate, Christianity in public schools, separation of church and state, King James Version curriculum, Ten Commandments in classrooms Texas, Establishment Clause religious liberty, Christian nationalism debate, government mandated religion, school chaplains Texas law, freedom of religion in America, why Christians should oppose government religion, Say Something with Mike Mac.