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Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! This Friday will see the release of a special episode celebrating the life and career of the late Dawn Cox.   Support the show Find out more; Twitter : @TheREPodcast1 Insta : @TheREPodcast Webiste: www.therepodcast.co.uk

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! Think RE is irrelevant in the 21st Century or think it is only for religious people or can only lead to a career as a vicar or an RE teacher? Think again.  RE A-level is dynamic, challenging and essential for life in modern Britain! Just listen and find out. If you are a parent of a student who wants to take RE A-level, or a student who is thinking of doi...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! If you have not ever heard of this trial or it's significance to the RE classroom then don't miss this episode.  It underpins our teaching of fundamentalism , science and religion , diversity of worldviews and curriculum freedom .  It also shines a light on global issues and polarisation . As we approach the 100 year anniversary of this trial (1...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! In 2020 while the world went on lockdown, something incredible emerged to support us teaching remotely - Oak National Academy.  Teachers from all over the country created online lessons along with videos which students could watch, pause, re-watch and learn.  These were lessons created by teachers for teachers for all Key Stages for all subjects.  When th...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! Calling all teachers of Religion, Crime and Punishment. This weeks guest is Dr. Evelyn Svingen who's specialist subject is criminology.  We discussion reasons for crime, aims of punishment, types of punishment, the history of punishment, the death penalty, women in prison,  and the relationship between foriveness and retribution. Evelyn mentioned lot...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! I LOVED this chat with Dr. Martin Pickup so much.  He is an associate professor in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham and Director of the Birmingham Centre for Philosophy of Religion.  His particular specialism is metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion so we had a lovely chat about these two things; specifically What metaphysics, how it's...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! As we continue to recognise diversity in faith traditions within our worldviews curriculums, I interview Dr. Rhiannon Grant about diversity in the Quaker tradition. Senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham, her specialism is modern Quaker thought.   Following on from the episode with Matthew Guest on Quakerism more generally, this focusses on how Q...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! *Please tweet along with us LIVE this Sunday as we watch the first episode of the new BBC Pilgrimage series BB2 Easter Sunday 9pm* Welcome to this very special Easter Episode of The RE Podcast where I am on location in London at the press screening of the new BBC Pilgrimage series set to air on Easter Sunday 2025 (20th April). I chat to 6 of the 7 pilgrim...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! If you have never been to Strictly RE before, then it is the biggest RE Conference in the country, organised by NATRE and RE Today, where RE teachers from all over the country, from all settings join together and geek out on all things RE.  There are keynote speeches, panel discussions, seminars, resources room and most importantly OTHER RE GEEKS TO TALK...

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Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! A pentecostal and a person from the charismatic movement were in a room... it sounds like the beginning of a joke doesn't it? But I wonder what might surprise them about the other? In this week's episode, Wolfgang Vondey generously enlightens us on that. We define what we mean by Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement and look at the etymol...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! I've had this episode ready to release for a while and I have been so looking forward to it.  I knew so little about the Tao until this chat but was entirely curious about it. So I invited Bob Martin to awaken me, all the way from South America! We discuss the best terminology and spelling, what exactly The Tao is and how it differs from other easter...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! On the 13th February the General Synod met and discuss 'Living in Faith and Love' which is mentioned in today's episode (link below).  A decision still had not been made on and three more months has been requested.   What stance should the Anglican Church take on homosexuality? Dr. Susannah Cornwall from the University of Exeter Theology an...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! To continue with the theme of inclusive education, I speak to Dr. Wouter Peeters about the moral importance of EDI.  This is a great episode for RE teachers, for EDI leads in schools and SLT. https://www.wouterpeeters.info/ We discuss;  the purpose of EDI initiatives in terms of Human Rights  the benefits to society and individuals in terms of self actual...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! This week I continue my conversation with Dr U-Wen Low from the University of Birmingham about how to read the stories in the new Testament without a colonial lens. We focus in this episode on the book of revelations. The episode is going to take a hermeneutical look at the book of Revelations and what it could really be saying and how it might have been...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! To continue on our theme of making our schools and curriculum representative and inclusive, I speak to Dr U-wen Low from the University of Birmingham about how to read the stories in the new Testament without a colonial lens. We focus in this episode on Jesus and Phliemonand will do a further episode on the book of revelation. The episode is going to take...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! 1st February was National Hijab Day!  This episode is a detailed exploration of Islamophobia with Bismha Afzal, Schools Coordinator with Educate Against Islamophobia (EAI). We talk about what Islamophobia, what it looks like in modern Britain and how we as educators can tackle it. It is a whole school thing, not an RE thing so please share with your colle...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! Have you heard of Don Cupitt? Of Big Ideas for RE? Or maybe you have used the In Converstations webinars!  This only skims the surfaces of what the Sea Of Faith Network does to support the RE Community! The Sofia publication, regional meetings, the Sea of Faith conference, Solarity... We are so lucky to have this network who provides a space  for people t...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! Today's episode is a delightful chat with Stacey Burman and Carrie Alderton about all things interfaith.  And when I say all things, I mean ALL THE THINGS! The history and purpose of Interfaith Week and why it is so important. How we can get involved as a community a school and a teacher. Where we can go for resources. But also, how this is part of a...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! This chat is just what we need to reinvigorate us as we start a new term,  cold, exhausted from festive celebrations, still arriving and leaving in the dark, with depleted VItamin D reserves.  This episode will give you an hour to be reignited and reinvigorated about the amazing work we all do and what is possible and help us start a new term with renewed...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! Happy New Year 2025 and the 5th year of The RE Podcast. And welcome to season 14 of The RE Podcast which is shaping up really nicely.  The first half of the season will focus on how we embrace a multi-religious society looking at Islamophobia, Interfaith week, Freedom of Religion or belief and the Sea of Faith Network. Then I am going to explore some smal...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! To help you celebrate the end of the longest term of the year, to get you in the festive spirit, to shine a beacon to parents, particularly mothers, as we focus on the amazing story of Mary, the mother of Jesus and the central role she plays in the Christmas story, I bring you tidings of great joy! This last episode of the season, and of 2024, is a spotli...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! In a move towards multidisciplinary RE, I wonder if you are stuck on how to teach through a social sciences lens - particularly through a psychological lens. Maybe you are not sure what the psychology of religion is, or how to incorporate it into your lessons.  Or maybe you have started to explore but have become overwhelmed. Dr Carissa Sharp is an associ...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! If any of you want to look at how you can teach the complex socio political tensions between the Abrahamic faiths, or are teaching about interfaith relations, or maybe you want to draw out a feminist lens in your classroom, then please draw on the amazing research and services offered by the Woolf Institute. A link to all the elements we spoke about are b...

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! This may be something you have never heard of, it is certainly a new piece of subject knowldge for me.  Tisha B'Av, which translates as the 9th of Av is an annual fast day in Orthodox Judaism which takes place at the beginning of August.  It serves to remember the Jewish suffering from the past - specifically the destruction of the first and second t...