Opinion

Professor David Ford is Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity and a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Here, he introduces the Understanding Christianity project. The article is abridged from his speech at the...

My contributions to the psychology–religion dialogue reflect my interests as a liberal arts professor who enjoys relating psychological science to other fields, including religion. In some essays and trade books I...

Derren Brown is probably the UK’s most famous illusionist. He was once a Christian, but his new show seriously questions the nature of miracles, begging the question, ‘Is religion all in the mind?’

The Beckly Lectures were founded nearly 80 years ago with the aim of giving an annual lecture for ‘thinking Methodists’ on issues of social and political interest. The 2016 lecture was delivered by Shami Chakrabarti,...

A pretty little newt came to say hello to me on my birthday. OK, I’m not sure it was deliberate on her part. Greg was digging out the pond and uncovered her, resting in the mud. It’s the first newt we’ve seen in...

Trevor Cooling is Professor of Christian Education at Canterbury Christ Church University and Chair of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales. This article is written in a personal capacity.

This article by Andrew and Clair Linzey is abridged from the introduction to the new book The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics (Routledge 2019).

Jonathan Wittenberg’s book about learning from his dog is a charming story of the life of a British rabbi, full of reflections on the wisdom of his pet dogs Safi and Mitzpah. Here he shares some of the insights the...

Francis Spufford wrote this best-selling book to explain why he is a Christian, ‘in spite of everything’. Apologetics is the business of defending religion against those who would attack it, and all GCSE RS students...

Professor Linda Woodhead MBE of Lancaster University argues that religion could be better. Religion: a fact of human existence If the proposition on the table was ‘politics deserves attacking today’, many would...

Rowan Williams, Chair of Christian Aid Who is he? Welshman Rowan Williams was Archbishop of Canterbury for ten years until 2012. Since 2013 he has been the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. His full title is ‘The...

YolanDa Brown on jazz, reggae, gospel and her Christian view of the world. YolanDa is a celebrity ambassador for many charities including the Prince’s Trust, Children and the Arts, and World Child Cancer, and in 2018...

David Cornick is General Secretary of Churches Together in England. We asked him why the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s ‘stand’ matters today. In an issue of REtoday that looks for the best that has been...

Anthony Thiselton, philosopher and Christian theologian, has two new books out, suited to students tackling A levels. We asked him about some of the challenges and possibilities of religious study at A level and...

South London grime artist Stormzy has a debut album called Gang Signs & Prayer. It was the first grime album in history to reach number 1. This is an edited version of Miranda Sawyer’s Guardian article about her...

I met Jain monk and environmental activist Satish Kumar at Schumacher College in Devon. We needed to meet a bit earlier than planned because it was Satish’s evening to cook. I asked how many he was cooking for....

I suggest hermeneutics is both difficult and relatively easy to teach in schools, but what is hermeneutics? Hermeneutics explores how we read, understand and handle texts, especially those that were written in another...

The story of Joseph and his coat is often told in primary school RE. Sometimes the Rice and Lloyd Webber version, which edits God out of it completely, is the only one used. But this story should be used by teachers of...

Michael Morpurgo was knighted in the 2018 New Year’s Honours list for his services to children’s literature. His work is loved by millions of pupils for its imaginative power and depth. REtoday asked him to launch...

Bob Hartman is an amazing Christian storyteller, who works a lot in schools, so we asked him for some help for any teacher of RE. Here’s his advice.