WHAT PEOPLE
ARE SAYING.
DR JACK W. HAYFORD,
CHANCELLOR,
THE KINGS COLLEGE & SEMINARY
Among my earliest recollections of religious instruction is the influence of dedicated RTCE [Released Time Christian Education] instructors. I am still pleased to affirm this timely and effective ministry.
RICHARD W. RILEY,
U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION
As Americans, we are a deeply spiritual people. We express our faith in many different ways. But when it comes to religion in public schools, too many Americans remain confused about what is permissible and what is not.... Americans need to know that their public schools are open to constitutionally protected religious expression. Public education must protect the established rights of students.
PASTOR JOHN ATKINSON,
CALVARY CHAPEL LONG BEACH
Christian Released Time Education accesses the greatest mission field in the United States: Up and down California thousands of children are experiencing the transforming power of the Word of God through Released Time Ministries. If you love kids, if you will love to see them changed through the love of Jesus Christ, this is the ministry to get involved in; this is the ministry to start in your community!
PASTOR JACK HIBBS,
CALVARY CHAPEL CHINO HILLS
By all means, get involved. Find out how you can financially, and prayerfully, and with your man-power, support Released Time Education... Why don't we get back to giving our children the opportunity to find out about the very One, and the principles of God's Word as to how this nation became at one time, and maybe hopefully once again, the greatest nation on Earth. So I'm going to ask you to join us: Find out what you can do to get involved in Released Time Education.
DAVID R. HODGE, PHD, MSW,
ARIZONA STATE UNIV.
Indeed, the results indicate that, if anything, release time enhances rather than inhibits academic achievement. Given that all costs are absorbed by outside entities, school districts appear to have little to lose and perhaps much to gain by working with community actors to support release time programs. Accordingly, school districts should consider supporting release time programs where they presently exist.
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS,
JUSTICE OF THE US SUPREME COURT, 1952
“We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. When the state encourages religious instruction or cooperates with religious authorities by adjusting the schedule of public events to sectarian needs, it follows the best of our traditions. For it then respects the religious nature of our people and accommodates the public service to their spiritual needs.”
DR. BENJAMIN RUSH,
SIGNATORY TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF 1776
“I believe no man was ever early instructed in the truths of the Bible without having been made wiser or better, by the early operation of these impressions upon his mind."