Opinion

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...

Lat Blaylock, Editor of REtoday, considers how this term’s theme of ‘personal worldviews’ connects to some key concepts in RE’s developing pedagogy, aiming to build confidence for teachers in tackling Islam...

Sir Trevor Pears is a Jewish philanthropist whose charity, the Pears Foundation, makes an excellent study for GCSE Judaism for all sorts of reasons. REtoday interviewed him about the theology, values and practice...

The Right Honourable Gordon Brown was Prime Minister of the UK from 2007–2010. This article
is abridged from his lecture to the Methodist Church conference last summer, and charts his vision of a journey of...

REtodayinterviews the translator, Dr Musharraf HussainOBE, DL, about his ‘labour of love’ – to make the meaning of the Qur'an plain in English to young people.

Making a difference by improving students’ educational experiences is a core principle for teachers, and the reason why many enter the profession.

Mina Cullimore and Berry Billingsley have got some fresh ideas to help develop epistemic insight in the RE classroom so that your RE can engage and inspire your learners, and you as their

When you were writing Dear England, did you think about young people engaging with this idea of a letter to the country?