Texas Textbooks Determine the Direction of the Nation, Part 1 - with Dr. Julie Pickren

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A handful of votes in Austin can quietly shape what students read in classrooms across America and most families never hear about it until the books are already printed. We start with a hopeful cultural moment, America Reads the Bible, and talk about why public Scripture literacy still shows up in civic life, from shared language to the way laws and history are taught. We also look ahead to the 250th anniversary and the idea of a national rededication, echoing early American practices of pray...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture.
0:08.9	Thanks for joining us today on the wallbuilders show.
0:11.1	You can find out more at wallbuilders.
0:13.2	If you want to catch some of the radio programs you might have missed,
0:15.4	or wallbuilders.com for everything else you need to help rebuild liberty in the 250th.
0:20.5	It's all there at
0:21.1	wallbuilders.com. Rick Green here with David Barton. Tim is somewhere in Washington, D.C., leading
0:26.4	people all over the place, taking them on tours of the monuments, the Capitol, got briefings
0:31.5	going on, and David's going to join him, but I had to steal David away long enough to get an
0:36.2	update on the State Board of Education.
0:38.4	But David, before we go to State Board, catch us up on what is a pastor's briefing? Like, when they come to D.C., what do they get? Well, actually, I'm going to back you up before that, because we're actually up here prior to that because this is the week of America reads the Bible. That's right. So this is the week when for 12 hours a day, for a week plus more,
0:57.0	we're having literally people read the Bible, including President Trump, will be part of the Bible
1:02.8	reading as well. So we started this with Sunday night. I spoke up here Sunday night,
1:08.5	and their opening ceremonies.
1:11.6	And Tim is, Tim and myself and Cheryl, my wife, Tim's mom, she's reading part of the Bible.
1:18.9	So they've got about 500 people.
1:20.2	Oh, no, wait, wait, David.
1:21.1	David, we got to, you got, I always get my guesses wrong with you and Tim.
1:25.3	Like I almost, I'm like maybe one for a thousand over the years, but I'm going to guess
1:29.8	that if David Barton is going to read out of the Bible for America reads the Bible,
1:34.6	hmm, I wonder if it would have anything to do with building a wall.
1:40.7	You think so?
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