Articles about Christianity
This article is for paying subscribers THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK and his new book for young explorers
Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, has been a good friend to religious education over many years. Lat Blaylock caught up with him to talk about his new book PisforPilgrim(Hodder & Stoughton 2024), which can...
This article is for paying subscribers REAL PEOPLEREAL OPINIONS: Real Voices
We asked people questions to get them thinking about their perspectives on values and ethics. You might want to use these personal, real-life reflections in your RE lessons, or perhaps invite pupils to respond to the...
This article is for paying subscribers Real voices
In keeping with our theme of messy religions and worldviews, we sought contributions from people whose beliefs and ways of living do not fit neatly into the traditional categories we often refer to in RE. Here they...
This article is for paying subscribers Digging deep and untangling text: teaching Genesis 1 to Year 7
In the summer of 2022 I read The Bible With and Without Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler (HarperOne 2020), which inspired me to re-vamp our unit on Genesis and the environment for our Year 7 spring term....
This article is for paying subscribers ‘What are stories of creation?’ How I used a NATRE resource to introduce younger learners to diverse perspectives
Last year I attended the Excellent RE course run by Adam Robertson in which we began to look at multidisciplinary RE. In the sessions, we looked at different ways of knowing and how they might be explored with pupils....
This article is for paying subscribers Can Christianity hold its own within a worldviews paradigm for RE?
Lord Griffiths of Burry Port is a member of the House of Lords. Now retired from active ministry, he served as President of the Methodist Conference in the 1990s. He is also known for his work as a politician, author...
This article is for paying subscribers What’s worth celebrating?
We asked members of different faith and belief communities a set of questions about their own lives of celebration. Here Buddhist, Bahá’í, Christian, Sikh and Muslim respondents explain what celebration means for...
This article is for paying subscribers What might make God proud?
Aisling Joinson teaches in Wrexham, and wanted her class of 7–9s to think for themselves about the creation story of Jewish and Christian scripture in Genesis 1.
This article is for paying subscribers Jerusalem: a mosaic of cultures and identities
Mohammed Ali Amla, Youth & Partnerships Director, offers an introduction to the education charity Solutions Not Sides.
Religion and RE: yesterday and tomorrow
RE is a subject with a past and a future, linked in all kinds of ways. Our communities press our governments across the UK to change the subject to be better suited to learning in the coming decade.
This article is for paying subscribers Stacey Dooley’s ways of knowing: lived religion on the BBC
Tim Hutchings is Assistant Professor of Religious Ethics at the University of Nottingham. Céline Benoit is Associate Dean for Public Engagement in the College of Business and Social Sciences at Aston University and a...
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
Eleven worldview questions: a way of opening up the concept of worldviews for your pupils
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
This term’s theme of pilgrimage and the journey of life led us to invite people from different communities to answer a set of questions from the perspective of their religion or worldview. The same seven questions...
This article is for paying subscribers Researching the religions and worldviews in RE: perspectives from inside a faith/worldview
Each issue of REtoday includes a set of pages from different writers to help RE teachers understand insider views. This issue is about RE and research, and we invited responses to the questions below from...
This article is for paying subscribers The Trinity in lockdown
During lockdown in February 2021, Years 3 and 4 were looking at a module on Christianity. To support our virtual learning and because we could not visit churches to help with our understanding, I asked local Anglican...
This article is for paying subscribers Encouragement: the example of St Barnabas made relevant to today’s school needs
Using a biblical story and a song to explore the value of encouragement across your whole school might help your pupils to find the positive in tough times. RE with a strong values connection.
This article is for paying subscribers Trinity: a big idea and some simple ways to promote deepening understanding
Katie Gooch, who teaches in East Anglia, wanted to enable her 7–8s to understand the importance of the idea of Trinity in relation to Christianity. Her learning ideas, in which children work as researchers, could be...
This article is for paying subscribers Interview with Archbishop Stephen, and learners’ letters
When you were writing Dear England, did you think about young people engaging with this idea of a letter to the country?
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 Racism is Everywhere but so is Hope
Revd Dr Joel Edwards was the General Director of the Evangelical Alliance from 1997 until 2009.