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"For the past decade, David Brockman, a 66-year-old Episcopalian in Fort Worth, has been a "strong supporter" of teaching religion in Texas public schools. As a nonresident scholar at Rice University's Baker Institute and an adjunct professor at Texas Christian University, where he teaches religion, Brockman believes students in private and public systems would benefit from learning about Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism and would better connect with neighbors across an increasingly diverse state. The way he sees it, public school educators who identify with a range of political backgrounds already teach subjects like history and government. Why couldn't they be trained to take on the world's religions in classrooms?"

"Christianity is infused throughout proposed Texas public school lessons more than other world religions, according to a new Texas Freedom Network Education Fund report."

"After the Texas Education Agency developed an elementary-level reading curriculum with multiple references to the Bible and Christianity, a new report from Texas Freedom Network found issues with the proposed plans. David Brockman is a nonresident scholar in religion and public policy with Rice University's Baker Institute. He authored the report finding the materials fail to capture historical reality and place too much emphasis on Christianity without adequate coverage of other religions."

Christian nationalism is “an ideology that seeks to privilege conservative Christianity in education, law, and public policy,” said Brockman. Recent efforts by new group the Remnant Alliance seek to see this worldview reflected in classrooms across Texas and beyond. 

Could infidelity lead to Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment? Evidence of an affair would strike his supporters as hypocritical, says nonresident scholar David Brockman. “He’s promoted himself as a conservative Christian, a defender of biblical values.”