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Mark Chater is the Director of the Culham St Gabriel’s Trust Baal and the Baals Baal is perhaps best known as the Canaanite deity whose prophets were confronted and defeated by Elijah in 1 Kings 18. In various forms,...

Actor David Suchet has said that recording the first full-length audio version of the Bible (spoken by a single British actor) was the ‘biggest role in my life’ in terms of research. ‘I love researching characters,...

Is taking a worldviews approach to RE on board opening up Pandora’s box, inviting a surfeit of honesty? What is my worldview? Chris Boxley, RE Today editorial team member, reflects on the personal and the...

Jane Brooke argues for playful RE ‘We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing’ George Bernard Shaw Professor Paul Ramchandani is the first ‘Professor of Play’ to have been...

Not a lot of people knew the phrase ‘global village’ in 1978 in Windermere.

Not a lot of people knew that it was Cat Stevens, not Rod Stewart, who wrote ‘The First Cut Is The Deepest.’
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When Worlds Collide is a fantastic 1951 sci-fi film. A star, Bellus, hurtles towards Earth, threatening its very existence. Philanthropists build a rocket to save a small group of humans, a modern-day Noah’s ark...

In her recent appearance before the Select Committee on Education, Nicky Morgan said that ‘we must not be shy about talking about fundamental British values’. She added that schools should promote values like mutual...

Norman Richardson reflects on progress towards better RE in Northern Ireland. I’ve been a critic of the RE Syllabus that is prescribed for use in Northern Ireland’s schools, so to find myself part of a group set up...