Articles about faith
Inside a faith
We invited members of different communities to share their ideas about the theme of REToday for this term, and the following pages give their views. You could use these questions with senior students in your school as...
Hidden Heritage: religion hiding in plain sight
Fatima Manji is a journalist for Channel 4 News. Her recent book Hidden Heritage (Chatto
and Windus 2021, paperback edition available from August 2022) explores the often-missed presence of stories of migration,...
Why aren’t there dinosaurs in the Bible? If God made everything, who made God?
Creation, environment, faith and science: planning for better RE with bigger ideas and diverse opinions.
Ten fine ways to use visual images of Islam in the RE classroom
These strategies can apply to any images within the RE classroom, including images of Islam such as we have been developing for publication in the new RE Today pack ‘Picturing Islam, Picturing Muslims.’ The...
The important thing is … Using Poetry to get to the heart of things in RE
The wisdom of inclusion: Stonewall and faith
Students and teachers praise year of God and the Big Bang
Should Muslim pupils fast during exams?
What does your faith say about the Devil?
Teaching abstract concepts in primary school RE: faith
Making a difference? Developing ‘Understanding Christianity
A baby called Peace
Emma Harwood is an RE teacher and a Christian mother. She faced an agonising dilemma when she was pregnant in 2015. Generously, here she shares her experience to open up moral and spiritual questions about the...
Using faith stories: ten great ideas
Exploring experiences of prayer inspired by different faith communities around the world
Faith in science? Faith in God?
This term’s theme is about the nature of faith and about the frontiers and borders between science and religions. We invited people from different religions and beliefs to contribute a personal perspective on the...
Ten ideas for opening minds on science and faith
The beginning of creative discussion
It’s Friday afternoon. Outside it’s cold, with an occasional lightly falling drop of rain hinting at imminent snowy weather, just in time for the weekend. Excited children, full of anticipation for tobogganing and...
The search for God
Martyn Joseph, singer songwriter, released ‘I Searched for You’ in 2015. We asked Martyn some questions about the song, and provide below some learning ideas about the search for God.
‘Jesus has big shoulders’ asking the ‘Big Questions’ with songs
Stephen Fischbacher is a musician from Edinburgh with a large following wherever RE, music and Christianity intersect. We asked him what tunes up his guitar.