Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan is Executive Editor of The Lion. A Kansas City native, he’s been an award-winning reporter, editor and opinion writer at newspapers in Kansas, Missouri, Georgia and Texas.

Public Education
Loudoun County school superintendent sacked after grand jury condemns handling of transgender sex assaults that sparked parents’ movement

First it “dropped the ball” in two sexual assaults of girls by a transgender student. Now the Loudoun County school board has dropped the hammer –… Read More

December 7, 2022
Culture, Public Education
Cross-dressing book for pre-K students crossed the line: Kansas City school district changes book-approval system after Lion story

A school district that gave preschoolers a book on cross-dressing has changed its procedures for giving out books after news of the incident surfaced last week. Read More

December 5, 2022
Culture, Public Education
Cross-dressing picture book allegedly a class assignment in Kansas City-area preschool, sending grandfather into battle

A children’s book promoting cross-dressing was handed out this week to a 4-year-old’s Kansas City-area preschool class, according to the girl’s livid grandfather. “This is what my granddaughter’s… Read More

November 30, 2022
Christian Schools, Opinion
5 ways Christian education just might be the salvation for a hopelessly divided and confused America

A character in the historical movie Braveheart says of 13th-century Scotland, “from top to bottom this country has no sense of itself.” The same could be… Read More

November 22, 2022
Culture
University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was tossed into the transgender athlete debate. Come on in, she says, the water’s fine

Riley Gaines figures she had all of three weeks away from swimming during her entire four years in college, when she became an elite competitive swimmer. Even during the… Read More

November 15, 2022