Abstract
It is now two decades since the United States Supreme Court's decisions, forbidding prayers and devotions in public school class rooms, but encouraging what the Court called teaching about religion.1 One can say fairly that many of the basic issues have not been clarified and settled, either in the public mind or prac tically. The Supreme Court's necessary distinction between ad vancement of religion and teaching about religion in the public schools has not been accepted as widely as might have been hoped, and confusion about it still exists among many edu cational professionals as well as parents. This author was among the hopeful, twenty years ago, when he wrote a book for general reading entitled, God in Education, A New Opportunity for Ameri can Public Schools. It appeared in print shortly after the Supreme Court's decisions. Although the author is a Protestant, the book was published by a Roman Catholic firm, Sheed and Ward. Its editor, Philip Scharfer, recognized the importance of the Court's decisions.
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