The Ricoeurs were deeply observant Protestants, a conspicuous minority in Roman Catholic France, and Paul's early education involved rigorous Bible study and churchgoing.
There is an education wing for Bible classes, a concert-hall-size atrium with glass elevators, crisscrossing escalators and giant monitors that itemize the day's offerings: meetings to help smokers quit, a cross-trainers minimarathon and pat the Bible classes for 6-month-olds.
It was those same convictions that led me to seek education about the Bible.
The Council for National Policy produced a document earlier this year in which it called on DeVos to restore religious education and implement Bible classes in public schools, according to The Washington Post.
Georgia was the first state in the country to allow Bible education classes in public schools when the program first launched in 2006.
Patti had a strong religious upbringing and a Bible education, but left organized religion as a teenager because she felt it was too confining; much later, she wrote the line "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine" in her cover version of Them's "Gloria" in response to this experience.
As a parent of teens, this hasn't been without its challenges, but my husband and I have seen the importance of defining clear limits for Internet usage, as well as providing a religious and moral education that includes Bible study and Sunday School.
He had almost no education apart from the Bible and, through his interpretations of scripture, believed the Earth was flat.
"I give him six tasks a day, including reading the Bible and education," Lee said.
It focused on a handful of escapees from a polygamist Mormon cult in Utah, and their attempts to rehabilitate themselves after a childhood in which all were denied any education beyond maths and Bible studies.
The community of Witnesses Bangs's family belonged to believed in an end-is-nigh ideology, and they disapproved of Christmas presents, birthday parties, and education beyond reading the Bible.
