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Our latest issues and the archive
Autumn 2020
Volume 38, Number 1
Theme: Climate Justice
In this issue:
- Jonathan Bartley, Green Party co-leader
- Greta Thunberg and the Pope: using our cover picture in your classroom
- 30+ learning ideas for ages 4-19 on faith and the love of the earth
- Laura D’Olimpio on teaching ethics in a green age
- Pupil art for climate justice
- Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam: where do the children play?
Summer 2020
Volume 37, Number 3
Theme: Visions
In this issue:
- Professor Richard Swinburne on the reality of God
- Packed with over 40 practical RE classroom ideas
- Six viewpoints from different faiths and worldviews on visionary living
- Professional REflection: from Paul Smalley and 6 others
- 20 ideas for GCSE learning
- Julian Stern on insight
- Stephen Asma on religion as therapy
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This article is for paying subscribers Identities in RE
Martin Buber (1878–1965), a great Jewish philosopher of personhood, says in his book I and Thou (Touchstone 1970): ‘Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.’ Perhaps a part of his...
This article is for paying subscribers Small change for RE?
Mark Chater argues for radical reform of RE. Abbreviated from a keynote given to the Humanists UK RE conference, 28 November 2020.
This article is for paying subscribers Events: What’s going on in the RE community
In March, Ben Wood passed the leadership of NATRE to Katie Freeman. We asked them both to look backwards and forwards from their position as Chair of our subject teacher association.
This article is for paying subscribers Working towards justice for Religion and Worldviews
Dr Kathryn Wright, CEO of the Culham St Gabriel’s Trust, which supports RE across the country, wants RE – maybe under a new name, ‘Religion and Worldviews’ – to be justly treated.
This article is for paying subscribers Writing towards an anti-racist RE curriculum
Alexandra Brown is an RE teacher, academic and poet whose work focuses on theologies of liberation, Islam within the black American experience, and issues of social justice pertaining to gender, race, class and...
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
We invited people from different religions and worldviews to respond to some questions about this term’s theme of ‘religion and justice’. Why not give the questions we asked to your students and ask them to...
This article is for paying subscribers On reflection: on being Chair of NATRE
It is great to welcome back Ben Wood to these pages. Ben has written here before, including a reflection on taking up the role of Chair of NATRE in the Summer 2019 edition. This time he looks back and reflects upon...
This article is for paying subscribers Reviews
In this issue we have reviews from two members of the RE Today team who have clearly made good use of lockdown time for some significant reading. Lat Blaylock’s review of James W. Sire’s book on philosophical...
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This article is for paying subscribers Satan’s dozen
12 ideas about the Devil for classroom thinking
This article is for paying subscribers Wide-ranging free resources about the Salvation Army
The teaching resources from the Salvation Army are often referred to as hidden gems, and they are well worth exploring.
This article is for paying subscribers Mindfulness for free: Don’t pay for a pale imitation when the real thing is available as a gift
This article is for paying subscribers Big books and class displays for RE
Becky Ross teaches at a British Forces primary school in Cyprus, where her pupils show their achievements through class ‘big books’ that are kept as a record of progress towards the outcomes of their Agreed...
This article is for paying subscribers Showcasing RE
This article is for paying subscribers Doctor Who in RE
Science fiction is often at its best when it explores, in creative ways, what it means to be human. The vast popularity of Doctor Who among some of the pupils in your school might make it a good idea to explore...
This article is for paying subscribers When pupils experience loss, what helps?
This article is for paying subscribers The North Wind and the Sun: a fable of Aesop
This article is for paying subscribers Cultural capital that makes a world of difference: re-building self-esteem
This article is for paying subscribers Why don’t you copy this? Education and Faith in Kirklees, Calderdale and Leeds
Helen Rivers of Kirklees Education reports on an innovative educational initiative aiming to bring West Yorkshire schools and faith communities together in a positive partnership. The ‘Faith and Education’ project...
This article is for paying subscribers The Big Bible story
A resource from the Diocese of Guildford
Jane Whittington is the Schools Officer, Christian Distinctiveness, Diocese of Guildford
Rachel Boxer is an RE Adviser, Diocese of Guildford
This article is for paying subscribers Edward Colston or John Wesley: who deserved a statue?
Extensive new resources for anti-racist RE are available free from the NATRE website, www.natre.org.uk/ about-natre/projects/anti-racist-re/, supported by the Free Churches Group and Methodist Schools. Here is an...