A Texas expert on religion in public school textbooks waded into Tennessee's ongoing discussion about how to appropriately teach world religions, specifically Islam, during a Tuesday night forum.
David R. Brockman, who conducted reviews of religion in textbooks up for adoption in Texas, shared the lessons he learned from that process with the crowd gathered at the Congregation Micah in Brentwood. The Family of Abraham, a Nashville-area interfaith group that promotes understanding and respectful dialogue about faith, brought Brockman to town to address the issue of teaching the history of religions in Tennessee.
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