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The WallBuilders Show

School Prayer Returns To The Spotlight - with Kelly Shackelford

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What changes when a single Supreme Court case rewrites the playbook on faith in public life? We dig into the ripple effects of Coach Joe Kennedy’s victory, which not only vindicated a high school coach’s right to pray but also swept aside the Lemon test that fed government hostility to religion for decades. With that barrier gone, schools and communities now have clearer ground to protect student religious expression, respect teachers’ personal faith, and honor America’s history and tradition...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture.

0:09.0

It's the Wall Builders Show.

0:09.8

Thanks for joining us today.

0:11.1

Website is wallbuilders.com.

0:12.9

And then the other one is wallbuilders.

0:14.3

Dot show.

0:14.8

Walbulbers.com for most of our information.

0:17.3

And then the radio program over at wallbuilders.

0:19.6

I'm Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton. We're taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective. Have a lot of great guests that join us. And later in the program, Kelly Shackleford will be back with us. First Liberty, great organization. They won so many cases at the Supreme Court and so many battles on the ground that they didn't

0:38.7

even have to take to court because they just wrote the right letter and went in and got the

0:42.9

Constitution followed even by a lot of schools and different places that were infringing

0:46.5

on religious liberty. So we love those guys. Appreciate what they do. Firstliberty.org is their

0:50.9

website. David Tim, this topic is essentially seeing the contrast of what the

0:56.7

Trump administration, and meaning when we say Trump administration, sometimes I think we

1:00.3

have to be more specific. That includes all of the agencies that are out there, including the

1:04.7

Department of Education that we don't think it's constitutional, but while it's there, instruction

1:09.5

that it gives to schools can have a lot

1:11.6

of influence on how much religious expression is allowed. So, wow, what a difference a president

1:17.4

makes. This is so different than when Biden was president. Well, it's amazing that Trump has

1:22.5

aggressively rolled out some really good initiatives, and he has really stayed within what I think all of us

1:29.0

consider sound constitutional guidelines. I mean, he hasn't pushed the envelope, but he hasn't backed

1:34.9

away from anything like prayer in schools. I mean, he's not saying radical things that would

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