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Difficult Faith-based History in the Classroom

 The Kentucky Faith and Public History Education Project exists to create and disseminate resources for use in public schools and elsewhere about Kentucky's Christian history. We started by articulating facts about Christianity using secular, objective and non-devotional language to introduce and explain what the Christian message is, how Christians practice their faith and what Christians believe. Interpretive text panels with that information, illustrated with historic images from the public domain like the Library of Congress Collection, are on display at the project's walking trail in Paris, Kentucky. Additional text panels contain information about the history of Christianity worldwide, in Kentucky and in Bourbon County. The walking trail also includes an eye-spy game that introduces thirty famous Kentucky Christians with short biographies spread out over seven sets of clues. Some of these individuals are also featured in our easy-reader chapter books. (Books 1-4 are avail