Events and resources

It is more than 40 years since I first read REtoday magazine. Thirty years since I wrote my first article (it was about Jains in Leicester). Nearly 20 since I took the job of editing the magazine, and this is my last...

May I start by thanking each of you for all that you are doing to ensure that all pupils in our schools receive high quality Religious Education.

I hope that as you are reading this, you have found some time to rest, relax and take a break from what I know must be a very busy start to the term. As a profession, we have been asked to teach and lead in ways that...

Our newest elected NATRE Executive met in the summer for the second time. It was a great meeting that was full of energy – we are lucky to have such a broad range of expertise on this Executive. I have been amazed...

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.

The 2020 Art in Heaven and Spirited Poetry competitions attracted record entries – lots of teachers sent them during lockdown

To study for a degree in Theology or RS is to open up a vast range of options for worthwhile careers. TRS-UK is launching a set of recently-filmed interviews with TRS graduates in fields as varied as television...

What are worldviews? What could this mean in practice? What could a worldviews curriculum look like?

The University of Cambridge is delighted to announce an innovative project creating high-quality RS resources to inspire secondary school students and bring Cambridge into your classroom.

The Understanding Christianity project to resource a theologically literate set of ways of teaching Christianity in RE has been evaluated academically in a new report by Rachael Shillitoe of the University of...

At the beginning of 2021, we can look back thinking that
2020 didn’t quite turn out how we thought it might.

I never enjoyed teaching the ‘environment’ bit of the GCSE course. It was just so bland, so uncontroversial, so anodyne. It was one of the most glaring examples of how the previous GCSE was so undemanding, and the...

RE Today/NATRE have played a key part in the development and production of the first CfSA Directory – a fabulous ‘flippin book’, it is free to flick through, download and save. Nearly every subject is listed,...

Francis Collins is Director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and led the Human Genome Project to its successful completion in 2003. Throughout his career he has advocated for the integration of faith and...

Forty per cent of new PGCE students have become RE teachers after graduating in other humanities subjects such as History, Philosophy or Sociology. This increase boosts the number of new RE teacher trainees to its...

This timely Grove publication explores how faith and prayer relate to social, cultural and political action in light of the climate emergency. Howles’ aim is to add the voice of Christian ethics to the discourse...

Do Not Photograph, an amazing book of photographs, is edited from the time Joshua Haruni spent photographing from within the Hassidic dynasties and Kabbalistic courts of Jerusalem and its environs. These communities are...

Schools with a religious character might like to use a new resource, ‘Thy Kingdom Come’ in their spiritual life, but any school might like to study Christian prayer through this example of a global community at...

How fast time flies. It has been just over a year since we introduced our regional ambassadors to the local groups network, and what an impact they have made! Thanks to collaboration between Local Groups Officer Juliet...

New editorial arrangements for REtoday magazine: after many years, this excellent team of editorial assistants has been disbanded, and in coming issues REtoday will rely more on NATRE Executive members and RE Today...