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Whose RE is it anyway?

Sam Collins, RE teacher and Farmington Fellow, gives a personal view of recent changes. What follows is an opinion piece based on my research into the latest RE GCSE reforms that were opened for teaching for the first...

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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...

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Why we still need moral absolutes

Phillip Blond is an English political philosopher, Anglican theologian and director of the ResPublica think-tank. We interviewed him about values education today. Use the article with 16–19s doing A level, but read it...
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Four ways to build on success

Dominic Hudson is Head of Religious Education at Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School.

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We need to talk about Charlie

Mark Chater wrote the first part of this article on the weekend of 7–9 January 2015, and the rest in early February.

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Improve your RE subject knowledge

We invited members of different religions to reflect on the values that their worldviews seek to promote. Over these next six pages you will find much to enlighten. As well as contributing to readers’ RE subject...
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Two Buddhist stories about values: looking for enlightenment

Read these two stories with pupils in the 7–14 age range and consider what they mean, what they have in common and how they relate to the teaching of the Buddha. The Enlightened Chicken Once there was a clever little...
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Book review – Making Nothing Happen: Five Poets Explore Fait and Spirituality

G D’Costa, E Nesbitt, M Pryce, R Shelton and N Slee, Ashgate Publishing, 209pp, pbk, £17.99, ISBN 9781409455158. This is a beautiful book in which its five contributors, the Diviners, explore the connections between...
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Book review – Visiting Faiths

Produced by the Faith Encounter Programme, Consultant Ruth Tetlow, 60-minute DVD of Faith Guides from Birmingham, £15.00 inc VAT, p&p. Order from ruthtetlow@btinternet. com. Films can be viewed online at www....
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Book review – The Art of Bible Reading Student Edition

Rob Freathy, Esther D Reed, Anna Davis, Susannah Cornwall and Brian J Turner, Kevin Mayhew Publishing 2014, 115pp, pbk, £12.99, ISBN 978-1-84867-707-4 This student book contains a series of 12 lessons which aim to...
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Book review – The Fifth Love

Mark Fox, Spirit and Sage 2014, 182pp, pbk £9.99, Kindle £7.00, ISBN 978-0-9928197-0-5. [email protected] tel: 01562 741280 This book will appeal to anyone keen to examine first-hand testimonies of religious...
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Book review – The RE Teacher’s Survival Guide: A Practical Guide to Teaching RE in Primary Schools

Jane Brooke, Bible Reading Fellowship 2014, 96pp, pbk, £6.99, ISBN 9780857462206. This easy read consists of 14 short chapters covering the basics for the non-specialist primary teacher: learning and teaching, planning,...
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Book review – Eight Bible- themed Journey Days for Primary Schools

Barbara Meardon and Verity Holloway, Bible Reading Fellowship 2014, 96pp, pbk, £9.99, ISBN 978-0-85746-247-3. Designed to fit readily into most agreed syllabus programmes, this practical resource contains a series of...
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Book review – A Whisper of Peace

Dawud Wharnsby, illus. Shireen Adams, ed. Yosef Smyth, The Islamic Foundation/Kube Publishing 2014 (first released 1996), 35pp, hbk, $22.95 (no price in £s), ISBN 978-0-86037-534-0. This is a collection of songs written...
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Book review – Sing Together

Piano arrangements by Rob Stroh, Out of the Ark 2013, book & audio CD £23.95, ISBN 978-1-906988-52-4; book, audio CD & Words on Screen™ CD-ROM, £39.99, ISBN 978-1-906988-53-1. www.outoftheark.com Sing...
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Book review – Share a story with

Stephen Pett, Fiona Moss and Lat Blaylock, illus. Sophie Harwicke, RE Today Services 2014, CD-ROM with 32-page Teachers’ Book, pbk, £45 inc. VAT and site licence, ISBN 9781905893928

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First The Egg

Laura Vaccaro Seeger, Frances Lincoln 2009, 14pp, hbk, £10.99, ISBN 9781845079697 This is a delightful brightly illustrated book for young children which can be used with older children to stimulate philosophical...
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The wisdom of dialogue

An interview with Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok, exploring the themes of his recent book. In the contemporary world of inter- religious tension and conflict, what can dialogue really achieve?DCS: Today religious conflict is...
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Confessions of an HMI

The Ofsted culture – a problem or a solution? A recurring message from friends (and enemies) as I left Ofsted last September was that I should celebrate the opportunity to speak my mind; to say what I really think. So...