For the staffroom
Big ideas: thinking from inside a faith
Big ideas might vary according to who you ask. Is Christianity more about forgiveness or the Trinity? Does Islam emphasise submission, revelation or prophethood most? Do Sikhs believe more in God or in service of...
Thirty years of beginnings and endings
Philosophy as a frame of reference for RE
Yonah Matemba (YM), RE teacher trainer at the University of the West of Scotland, addresses a big issue in the subject in an interview with the Editor, Lat Blaylock (LB)
Save RE – from itself
Neil McKain, Head of RS and NATRE Executive member is concerned by what some of his fellow RE teachers are posting on the SAVE RE Facebook page
The Shap Working Party: 50 years of influence
As a young RE teacher in the late 1960s, I discovered free and useful resource materials from the Shap Working Party on World Religions in Education. I then attended the first Southern Shap conference in 1972. A key...
A Muslim perspective
Basma Elshayal is a researcher at the University of Warwick
A Christian perspective
Jane Chipperton was recently RE adviser in St Albans Diocese, and is a Trustee of RE Today
A Humanist perspective
Peter Harvey is a Humanist representative on Derbyshire SACRE
A Jain Perspective
Himanshu Jain is a director for the Institute of Jainology
A Pagan Perspective
Mike Stygal is a former teacher and a Pagan representative
Faith perspectives on belief and animals
We asked six people from different religions and worldviews some questions about their attitudes to animals and the natural world. The next six pages are a great resource to use with students, who might read and...
The beginning and the end – Five different views
We need to Talk about LISA
A Muslim response to the evil of IS
RE, or not RE? That is the question
A new idea for whole sixth-form RE provision
It’s not easy to ensure all sixth-form students receive their legal entitlement of RE provision. So many schools don’t try and many schools try, but don’t have...