Based on a sample of 251 news articles, 73 opinion
articles, and 91 Internet blog posts published between January 1, 1980, and June 1, 2010, the
author conducts a discourse analysis of six articles/posts from the sample and interviews 12
writers of articles/posts from the dataset. The author identifies and analyzes the following topics:
(a) Bible-based courses (43%), (b) religion-focused social studies standards (37%), and (c)
teaching about world religions (15%). Applying a theoretical framework developed by Walter R.
Fisher’s conception of the narrative paradigm and complemented by Walter J.