Opinion

Peter Vardy is a theologian, philosopher and author well known for his RS conferences in UK schools. He was Vice-Principal of Heythrop College, a Jesuit college in London, from 1999 to 2011. His remarkable ability to...

His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad is the Fifth Caliph of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim community. It was my honour and privilege to interview him early in 2023 at the community’s headquarters in Tilford, near...

Lord Griffiths of Burry Port is a member of the House of Lords. Now retired from active ministry, he served as President of the Methodist Conference in the 1990s. He is also known for his work as a politician, author...

James Holt, Associate Professor of Religious Education at the University of Chester, explores the complexities behind the headlines on religion from the 2021 Census, and reflects on the implications for teachers and...

The Singh Twins are internationally acclaimed contemporary British artists whose distinctive ‘Past-Modern’ (as opposed to Post-Modern) art draws upon a huge range of historical, cultural and religious influences....

My work in RE started as a schoolteacher, but for more than 25 years now I have been supporting teacher training in RE, and research on the subject. It is good to celebrate what the subject has achieved in those...

Mick Waters and Claire Banks have jointly written A Curious Curriculum to challenge any teacher to keep their alertness to the sheer fascination that can drive education.

As Chief Executive of Culham St Gabriel’s Trust, one of the things I enjoy most about my job is sending confirmation of grant awards to successful applicants. Culham St Gabriel’s is an endowed charitable...

Denise Cush admits to being an RE and study of religions enthusiast who still finds it exciting years after retiring, and loves visiting temples/mosques/synagogues/ churches, museums, archeological sites and art...

Shammi Rahman, NATRE Executive member, arranged this interview with Dame Rachel de Souza, whose high-profile role as Children’s Commissioner for England gives her access and influence on behalf of children in...

Peter Dray and Matthew Lillicrap explain their new book Reality and Other Stories (IVP 2022), which argues that the story of God in the Bible is well explained in the light of Christopher Booker’s theory of ‘seven...

We asked some of RE’s big thinkers to share their thoughts about what RE should carry forward from its recent history and what we should be looking for in the future of the subject. The Editor was strict about...

The new movie Where Is Anne Frank is a gift to RE teachers who want to explore connections between history, ethics and our European futures. This is a superb resource with a dreamlike quality to its storytelling,...

Looking through the lenses of ahimsa,
science and history to correct the
blindness of commercialism and heal
Mother Earth

Introduction
a decade has passed since Ofsted
published Religious Education: Realising the
Potential (2013). It argued that RE in schools
is generally overcrowded, incoherent and
...

Professor Alister McGrath offers a positive vision of the role of theology in school, RE
and public life as well as in churches.

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,...

Father Michael Nazir Ali, in a wide-ranging interview, elucidates his vision for RE, and for the great moral and spiritual questions that our communities face.

In his new book Antisemitism: A World History of Prejudice (The History Press 2022), Dan Cohn-Sherbok traces the origins of anti-semitism and its manifestations, from political opposition to racial persecution and...

In neglecting Religious Education (RE) we leave our young people unprepared for the modern world. A National Plan is needed to safeguard
the subject, argues Sir Peter Bottomley, Conservative MP for Worthing...