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State Senator Mark Pody: TN Law Allowing School Display of Ten Commandments Focuses on History, Not Religion

State Senator Mark Pody: TN Law Allowing School Display of Ten Commandments Focuses on History, Not Religion

by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 29, 2026 | News, Policy, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South, TN LEAD, TNLEAD

State Senator Mark Pody (R-Lebanon) says a new Tennessee law allowing schools to display the Ten Commandments is rooted not in establishing religion, but in recognizing historical influences on the nation’s founding, a principle that guided how he helped craft the...
President-Elect Trump to Take the Oath of Office on Personal Bible and Lincoln Bible

President-Elect Trump to Take the Oath of Office on Personal Bible and Lincoln Bible

by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 17, 2025 | Culture, Faith, National, News, Politics, Tennessee

President-elect Donald Trump will use his personal Bible and the Lincoln Bible to take the Oath of Office on Monday, the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee announced Friday. Trump’s personal Bible was given to him by his mother in 1955 to mark his Sunday Church Primary...

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