From knowledge transfer to meaning attentiveness
(or my addiction to writing about sacred text hermeneutics.)
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Rediscovering the Art of Reading Sacred Texts: a new research article
This transformation marks a pivotal moment where insights from Vatican II and decades of biblical scholarship finally reach the classroom, inviting a new generation to encounter sacred texts.
The Place of Religious Education in a Pluralistic Society
Address given at Refresh, Review, Respond, National SIAMS Inspector Conference 2025 St John’s Waterloo, London. Thursday 11 September 2025
Is it time to do less, in more depth
and restore the focus on important areas of social and ethical disagreement in religious education?
Pope Leo XIV, traditional and progressive?
Many are using the word moderate to describe Pope Leo XIV and of course it is really too soon to say much about the kind of papacy we are going to see reveal itself.
A day at the Religious Education Council AGM
Reflecting on a room filled of people from wildly diverse religions and non religious beliefs, who nonetheless cooperate for a better school education.
Group rights v universal rights: time to recall some other ancient Biblical moral wisdom about ethical life in practice
The Biblical tradition offers a couple of profound ethical principles which have remained vital in modern liberal thought.
Not really Disagreeing with Timandra Harkness
I had the pleasure of meeting and dialogue with Timandra Harkness this week when she came to the university to give a talk at CCCU.
Coming soon
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