Opinion
Bold ambition: a life in RE
Kathryn Wright has been appointed CEO for the Culham St Gabriel’s Trust, a major national sponsor and grant maker in the field of RE. We wanted to ask her about her life in RE.
RE in the new inspection framework
Discovering Sacred Text: an astonishing new resource from the British Library for school RE
Lat Blaylock commends a new resource for RE from one of our great institutions of cultural capital, the British Library. If inspectors want to see a rich knowledge curriculum, and pupils deserve to explore sources of...
Form criticism and understanding: teaching the Gospels
Children should read the Bible!
Home, belonging, culture, difference:
My genes are shared with a cauliflower, so what does it mean to be human?
Professor David Wilkinson of the University of Durham shares a perspective on the difference between you, dear reader, and a cauliflower.
What’s the problem? Religion and human nature
Geoff Teece, RE teacher trainer at the University of Exeter, explores religions through the accounts they give of the flaws and failings of human nature. Are faiths best understood as prescriptions for ailing...
What makes us human? Guilt, prayer, love and worship
The Right Reverend James Jones, former Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, explores our moral and spiritual instincts, our need to love and our spontaneous expressions of reverence.
Al Murray: the ‘Pub Landlord’ on the Golden Rule
This term’s theme for REtoday is: ‘What’s the problem?’ We interviewed award winning comic Al Murray, who noticed that at least eleven different religions and philosophies say humanity would be better for...
Religious literacy for all: are teachers equipped for the task?.
BIG ideas, questions: what does this mean in RE?
RE is often valued by teachers and pupils for the ‘big questions’ it addresses. The place of ‘big ideas’ in the subject goes beyond what each particular religion has to say, and in some ways makes RE a subject...
Introduction to Shi’a beliefs and practices for GCSE RS
The Shi’a represent 10–15 per cent of Muslims worldwide. They are the majority in Iraq, Iran and Bahrain, and significant minorities in Afghanistan, India/Pakistan, Lebanon, the north-eastern part of Saudi Arabia,...
Recently I decided to start something new … Wandering and wondering
Big question: can you find the God within?
Living as we do in a scientific age, how should we go about trying to convince young people, and others for that matter, to take the idea of God seriously? The view that science and religion are implacably opposed to...
Human Rights and Gay Cake
Should a baker be prosecuted for refusing to ice a pro-gay message onto a cake? Peter Tatchell will enable your students to weigh up arguments between religious freedom and gay rights. Read the article and discuss the...