Steve Green
Hobby Lobby’s Steve Green’s Bible curriculum is a hit in Israeli schools
By Michele Chabin — June 15, 2015
JERUSALEM (RNS) The Israeli pilot program, known as TAMAR represents the Museum of the Bible's first successful educational program. Last year, an Oklahoma school district shelved a similar pilot curriculum.
David Trobisch lends Green family’s Bible Museum a scholarly edge
By David Van Biema — April 27, 2015
(RNS) Could the Green family’s Museum of the Bible be more open to dispassionate scholarship than previously assumed? The hiring of David Tobisch might suggest that.
Hobby Lobby president’s Bible curriculum shelved by Oklahoma school district
By Adelle M. Banks — November 26, 2014
(RNS) "In summary, the topic of a Bible course in the Mustang School District is no longer a discussion item nor is there a plan to provide such a course in the foreseeable future," Mustang Public Schools Superintendent Sean McDaniel said.
Museum of the Bible aims for timeless name, imagery
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — September 30, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) Steve Green says the $800 million museum will show "the Bible speaks for itself."
Hobby Lobby’s Green family postpones launch of public school Bible curriculum
By David Van Biema — July 16, 2014
(RNS) The nonprofit Museum of the Bible, has already poured millions of dollars into developing the courses and hoped to introduce the first textbook in Mustang, Okla., when classes begin later this summer.
Five takeaways from the Hobby Lobby case
By Lauren Markoe — June 30, 2014
(RNS) Corporations can't pray, but they do have religious rights -- and other takeaways from the Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.
Southern Baptists pray for ‘favorable’ Hobby Lobby ruling
By Adelle M. Banks — June 11, 2014
BALTIMORE (RNS) “God, we ask for a favorable, favorable ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States for the cause of religious liberty,” prayed the Rev. Ronnie Floyd, incoming president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
COMMENTARY: Is the Hobby Lobby Bible elective objective?
By Stephen Prothero — May 13, 2014
(RNS) I do not doubt that Steve Green wants to produce a non-sectarian Bible textbook. I am skeptical, however, that the scholars that Green has assembled for this job are capable of producing a textbook beholden to facts rather than faith.
Hobby Lobby’s Steve Green launches a new project: a public school Bible curriculum
By David Van Biema — April 15, 2014
(RNS) If successful, Steve Green would galvanize the movement to teach the Bible academically in public schools across the nation.
Hobby Lobby’s Green family meets with Pope Francis
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — March 31, 2014
(RNS) Pope Francis asked members of the Green family how their Supreme Court fight against President Obama's contraception mandate was progressing, a spokeswoman said.
Supreme Court takes up Hobby Lobby’s challenge to the contraception mandate
By Lauren Markoe — March 25, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Hobby Lobby case could be yet another instance where Justice Anthony Kennedy provides the swing vote in the decision of whether a corporation has religious rights, and whether those rights have been trampled by the government's contraception mandate.
Does Hobby Lobby have religious rights? The Supreme Court will decide
By Lauren Markoe — March 18, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) Hobby Lobby says Obamacare tramples on its religious freedom. But Hobby Lobby is not a person -- it's a corporation. What religious rights, if any, do corporations have? The Supreme Court will try to answer that question.
Hobby Lobby’s Steve Green stands on faith against Obamacare mandate
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — March 17, 2014
(RNS) Hobby Lobby President Steve Green, with a life steeped in faith, may be the ideal plaintiff in the looming Supreme Court showdown over religious freedom and the Affordable Cate Act contraception mandate.
What’s abortifacient? Disputes over birth control fuel Obamacare fight
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 28, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) Religion, medicine and politics shape the way people define pregnancy and abortion -- key points in the battles over the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate.
‘Crown jewel’ of American printing fetches $14.2 million in record auction
By David Van Biema — November 26, 2013
NEW YORK (RNS) One of the 11 surviving copies of the Bay Psalm Book, the first book (and the first book of Scripture) printed in English in America, was sold Tuesday night for the highest price ever recorded for a print book in open sale.
