Opinion

Bob Hartman is an amazing Christian storyteller, who works a lot in schools, so we asked him for some help for any teacher of RE. Here’s his advice.

Professor Ted Cantle CBE, of the iCoCo Foundation, suggests teachers of RE can make a big contribution to a respectful society if they are ready to start risky discussions. Are you?

The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP urges a fair playing field for Christianity, and a revaluation of twenty-first century faith.

Reactions to the Commission on RE’s Interim Report We invited short reviews and responses to the CoRE report from some key voices in the RE community. They don’t all agree, and they don’t hold back. Whose views do...

Doctor Anthony Towey of St Mary’s University, who serves as one of the commissioners, sums up the work so far. Over the past 15 months I have been privileged to be a member of the Independent Commission on RE, convened...

In April 2017 Doctor Alvin Plantinga, an American scholar whose rigorous
writings over a half century have made theism – the belief in a divine reality
or God – a serious option within academic...

Let’s say it turns out that there are an infinite number of universes, so all possibilities of the mixtures of the laws of nature exist, and in some universes there’ll be stars and galaxies, in others there won’t,...

Professor Alister McGrath of Oxford University

Gervase Phinn, humorist, educationist, poet and Yorkshireman, spoke at the launch of the Nottinghamshire Agreed Syllabus for RE, exploring
the value of our subject in schools today.

I sense a sea-change in the relationship between faith and secularism, at least in thoughtful public discourse (the blogosphere is, of course, another matter!). The more strident polemics and rhetoric of the new atheism...

Award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe works with RE students on their media skills. We asked her how she got involved. RET: Sara, you have been taking media workshops with RE students recently. What made you get involved...

Doug Rice Bowen is an RE teacher in West Yorkshire, and a member of the NATRE Executive. Before becoming an RE teacher he was a classical singer, and encourages you here to access the traditions of Christian choral...

Professor Robert Winston gave the keynote speech at the Board of Deputies of British Jews’ first Teaching Judaism conference, run in conjunction with the Catholic Education Service. RE teacher Adina Bernstein went...

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is this year’s winner of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. When he was awarded the prize, he gave an address which every student of ethics will find interesting. Here is an...

Imagine there was a subject of the school curriculum that helped children and young people to learn from the wisdom of the world’s religious and philosophical traditions so that they could (a) make the best of their...

Dr Bill Gent edits the Professional REflection section of REtoday. He is an associate fellow of the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit at the University of Warwick. [email protected]

Mick Waters is Professor of Education at Wolverhampton University. REtoday asked him about RE in the curriculum.

What is a sermon? Does it impart wisdom? Alan Bennett, playwright, gave this ‘Sermon’ at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, last year, calling for Christian fairness and the phasing out of fee-paying schools. The...