REtoday Magazine - Autumn 2023

Magazine section: Events and resources

External links:

Item: RE Hubs are up and running

• RE Hubs website

Item: Philosophy of religion resources from the FT

• Free access to ft.com for schools and colleges teaching 16-19-year-olds; for teachers and students of philosophy and ethics

Item: Invite MAF's plane into your playground!

• Mission Aviation Fellowship's School Partnership programme

Item: BBC expands Early Years RE resources

• New RE/RME and RVE resources for 4- and 5-year-olds from BBC Bitesize Reception

Item: Anti-racist RE: continuing debates and widening resources

• Anti-racist RE resources from NATRE
• The Equiano Project
• The Don't Divide Us project

Item: Fishchy music celebrating 25 years

• Fischy Music

Item: Using faith-inspired art

• Westhill Endowment: art collections available for free use in schools and community venues (transport and insurance costs may be incurred)

Item: Global Neighbours assessors needed

• Global Neighbours Scheme, run by Christian Aid in partnership with the Church of England Education office

Item: STARME celebrates first year

• Scottish Teachers of Religious and Moral Education website and monthly newsletter

Item: Educate against Islamophobia

• Educate Against Islamophobia website, with free downloadable materials

Magazine section: Opinion and Insight

External links:

Article: Uniqueness, unity and the power of art (interview with the Singh Twins)

• The Singh Twins website
• 'Jewels from Sikh wisdom: a journey of discovery', website includes some sample pages from the book
• 'Indigo: the colour of India' Art in Motion app (free download)

Article: Making sense of the census

• 2021 Census: Religion in England and Wales (29.11.2022, ONS)
• 'The Nones: who they are and what they believe' report by Hannah Waite (24.11.2022, Theos)
• 'Difference in religion 2011-2021' article on Dr James Holt's website

Article: Can Christianity hold its own within a worldviews paradigm for RE?

• Hansard: Education (Non-religious Philosophical Convictions) Bill (House of Lords, 03.02.2023)

Article: Hoping for world peace

• Library of books and texts at Al Islam website (Ahmadiyya Muslim Community)

Article: The Philosphers' Daughters

• The Philosophers' Daughters by Peter Vardy (Darton, Longman & Todd 2023)

Magazine section: Classroom

Members only:

Article: Exploring arguments of a 'genderless Divine': within a Sikh dharmic worldview

• PPT with ideas for the classroom and examples of student work. (Multifaith: presentation refers not only to Sikhi but also Hindu and Christian/biblically-based views)

Article: Digging deep and untangling text: teaching Genesis 1 to Year 7

• PPT of student work

External links:

Article: Decolonising the curriculum, decolonising RE

• The RE Podcast

Article: What are stories of creation?

• 'What are stories of creation?' resources which inspired the article can be found in Big Questions Big Answers volume 3: Religion and the Environment, ed. Fiona Moss (RE Today, 2021)

Article: Using Hindu scripture: the Vedas and Upanishads

• The Vedas and Upanishads for Children, Roopa Pai (Swift Press 2023)

Article: Dealing with diversity

• Dawn Cox's blog (an RE teacher's views on teaching and education)

Article: The colourful complexity of Paganism in the RE classroom

• Pagans: The Visual Culture of Pagan Myths, Legends and Rituals, Ethan Doyle White (Thames & Hudson 2023)

Article: Keeping it real: diverse identities among the British Jewish community

• Inclusive Judaism, on the Jewish Museum London website: images and resources
• CPD events for teachers offered by the Jewish Museum London

Article: The messiness of understanding

• The P4C (Philosophy for Children) Cooperative website
• Spirited Arts

Magazine section: Staffroom

External links:

Article: RE as poetry

• Poet in the City
• Enfield's Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE)

Article: NATRE Chair

• Strictly RE 2024

Article: AREIAC 2023 conference

• Association of RE Inspectors, Advisers and Consultants

Article: NASACRE 2023 conference

• National Association of Standing Advisory Councils on Religious Education

Magazine section: The big picture

External links:

Article: Wondering in Uzbekistan

• Judging religion: a dialogue for our time, John Holroyd (SilverWood 2019)

Magazine section: Last word

External links:

Article: What is RE?

• Culham St Gabriel's Leadership Programme
• Theos film about worldviews: Nobody stands nowhere (2021)

Magazine section: Professional REflection

External links:

Article: What next for RE?

• After Religious Education
• NATRE resource: Methods of teaching RE (summaries and short films from various authors)

Article: What do we really mean by personal knowledge?

• Bickleigh Down School video case study: 'Multiple Interpretations of Lived Religion'

Article: Promoting epistemic literacy

• UNESCO, What you need to know about literacy (last update: 29 June 2023)