The RE Podcast

Mar 06 2025 184 ep. 38 mins 12

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S14 E8: The One About EDI

Mar 06 2025 66 mins

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 o

S14 E7: The One About Decolonising The New Testament Part 2 - Revelation

Feb 27 2025 51 mins

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 revelation. The episode is going to take a hermeneutical look at the book of Revelation (singular) and what it could really be saying an

S14 E6 The One About Decolonising The New Testament Part 1

Feb 13 2025 53 mins

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

S14 E5: The One About Islamophobia

Feb 06 2025 50 mins

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

S14 E4: The One About The Sea Of Faith Network

Jan 30 2025 49 mins

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 spac

S14 E3: The One About Interfaith Week

Jan 23 2025 75 mins

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

S14 E2: The One About FoRB (Freedom of Religion or Belief)

Jan 16 2025 53 mins

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 ter

S14 E1: The One About AI

Jan 09 2025 61 mins

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 ex

S13 E12: The One About Motherhood (Christmas Special)

Dec 19 2024 53 mins

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 2

S13 E11: The One About The Psychology Of Religion

Dec 12 2024 55 mins

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 Sha