BAYLOR UNIVERSITY, Waco, TX, June 1, 2006
A new national report, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, entitled Bible Literacy Report II: What University Professors Say Incoming Students Need to Know, revealed that English professors surveyed at leading universities–including Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford–agreed that “regardless of a person’s faith, an educated person needs to know about the Bible.” Released June 1, 2006, by the Bible Literacy Project (www.bibleliteracy.org) at an academic symposium on the Bible at Baylor University, the report surveyed 39 English professors at 34 top U.S. colleges and universities, who said that knowledge of the Bible is a deeply important part of a good education. [more...]