Articles by Julie Grove
Prayer at Varanasi
Julie Grove, of the RE Today Editorial Team, provides learning ideas from the Big Picture.
REVIEW
Storybag: Stories of The Lost Articles of Faith, grey/green cloth storybag with 23 wooden pieces, comprising figures, animals and contextual props, with 10pp booklet, £54.00, catalogue code: 4-GPLOST.
Storybag:...
REVIEW: The Christmas Book
Rita Storey, Franklin Watts 2012, 45pp, hbk, £12.99. ISBN 978-1-4451-1056-1.
REVIEW: Christmas is Special
Anita Ganeri and Jennie Poh, Wayland 2013, 33pp, hbk, £10.99,
ISBN 978-0-7502-7704-4.
Is what you see what you get?
Implementing 4–7 RE with integrity
Julie Grove, whose career made her a specialist in Early Years and infants RE, makes four suggestions about good practice, with examples. Integrity in RE with this age group means using specific examples of religious...
Reviews
Hallowed or hackneyed … words to go beyond?
Resources
One-minute wisdom: stories from Anthony de Mello
Wisdom in action: A sword and a baby
The biggest question
I must have been about 4 years old because I remember the red shoes. Once I went to school, shoes had to be a serviceable brown. I can picture my red-shod feet walking around the curved edge of a very wide pavement...
Remembering John Hull
Resources
An icon of saintly courage
Reviews
On these pages I regularly invite readers and colleagues to share their views about books they have enjoyed. Julie Grove has responded with a review of a book by Mark Oakley – theologian, poet, broadcaster, Dean of...
What is it with donkeys?
If there is an animal close to the nation’s heart, it is surely the donkey. Those in the know reckon donkeys are good-natured, more like a dog than a horse in temperament, intelligent despite their reputation for...
Reviews
Is it possible to do justice to a subject as diverse as the history of religion in fewer than 250 pages? Can it really be more than the ‘Cook’s Tour’ of religions that good religious educators aim to avoid? Who...
Who is it? Where is it? Why?
Important words that changed the world –
He stood quite still, almost overwhelmed by the moment, listening to his heartbeat pounding in his head as well as his chest. He was very aware of the silence that seemed to be closing in on him and the anticipation...
How to tell a faith story well
Every day we are ‘storied’. We all live by stories – indeed, our lives are stories – but for them to mean something we have to be inside them; otherwise they are merely words. When we achieve that synergy, we...
Singing the faith
Here, Julie Grove reflects on the meanings of hymns. She is a member of the REtoday editorial team.
Beginnings and endings – An exploration
Shiva Nataraja, Lord of the Dance, is one of the most well-known of all Hindu images. It is enigmatic on first encounter, but its complexity makes it an exciting resource for exploring Hindu beliefs about the cycle of...
The man who collected beetles
Julie Grove suggests RE work on Charles Darwin for the primary pupil
Have you ever looked at a beetle? I mean really closely? Have you seen its shiny back, iridescent with colour, when sometimes all you think...