ABSTRACT
Even though Bibles are no longer commonly present in public educational settings, we challenge the idea that they are absent from public school classrooms. By this we don’t mean to imply that Bibles are still used as curricular texts (not pervasively, anyway)—such practices have been banned through various Supreme Court decisions. Rather, we are suggesting that, while Bibles are no longer found on students’ desks, they may still carry much weight, if not in what we teach then in how we teach or in how we conceive of education and assess its results. This is to say that we believe that Bibles are still present, at least in spirit, in public education classrooms even if they are physically absent from such settings.
