Siblings Madison Rodriguez, 2, left, and Carson, 3, work on crafts in Immanuel Lutheran Church’s virtual Vacation Bible School from their home in Merrill, Wisconsin. Photo courtesy of Kyla Rodriguez ...

The long hot days of summer are here. What started off as great family fun and togetherness has degenerated to survival ...

Group’s VBS packages include not only printed curriculum but also toys and other decorative items. And production costs have soared 24%, increases that Schultz says are too large to pass on to ...

at the top of her lungs, that would be me -- thanks to VBS. While some churches are more informal or create their own programs, VBS curriculum is now a bigtime product line for religious publishers.

When Vacation Bible School Includes a Slavery Role Play Churches are in turmoil over a popular publishing company’s Africa-themed curriculum. Nuria Marquez Martinez Bio Mother Jones illustration ...

Such stories in a new Vacation Bible School curriculum from persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs have some children’s spirituality experts questioning whether it encourages children’s ...

hen Soong-Chan Rah received an advertisement for a 2004 Vacation Bible School curriculum published by the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, he thought it was a joke. Then the pastor of ...

The photo displays the thematic setting for ROAR, an African-themed Vacation Bible School curriculum that was criticized for material that instructed children to pretend to be Israelite slaves.