Thursday, 8 January 2015
Lord Nash Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools On the importance of SACREs and Religious Education
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y3kafrzhxf38bfc/NASH%20Letter%20to%20SACREs%20Dated%20Jan%202015.pdf?dl=0
Karen Armstrong on Religion and the History of Violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6I-V3iNeFo
Karen Armstrong on Religion and the History of Violence
Published on Jan 7, 2015
Filmed at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 1st October 2014.
Is religion is to blame for most of the bloodshed throughout human history? Many would concur, but this is a view strongly countered by Karen Armstrong, one of the world’s leading thinkers on religion and spirituality. Armstrong is the former Catholic nun who abandoned her religious creed and has described herself as a ‘freelance monotheist’, while also taking inspiration from Buddhism. She has sold hundreds of thousands of books around the world and won huge audiences for her powerful oratory in which she challenges her listeners to reappraise their prejudices about religion. She has addressed the US Congress and Senate, and as a testament to her bridge-building abilities she has filled venues across the Muslim world, including Malaysia, Turkey, Jordan, Singapore, Egypt and Pakistan where up to 5000 have come out to hear her.
She has written over 16 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths have shaped world history and drive current events.
She came to the Intelligence Squared stage to talk about her forthcoming book 'Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence'. Journeying from prehistoric times to the present, she contrasted medieval crusaders and modern-day jihadists with the pacifism of the Buddha and Jesus’ vision of a just and peaceful society. And she demonstrated that the underlying reasons – social, economic, political – for war and violence in our history have often had very little to do with religion. Instead, Armstrong celebrated the religious ideas and movements that have opposed war and aggression and promoted peace and reconciliation.
Is religion is to blame for most of the bloodshed throughout human history? Many would concur, but this is a view strongly countered by Karen Armstrong, one of the world’s leading thinkers on religion and spirituality. Armstrong is the former Catholic nun who abandoned her religious creed and has described herself as a ‘freelance monotheist’, while also taking inspiration from Buddhism. She has sold hundreds of thousands of books around the world and won huge audiences for her powerful oratory in which she challenges her listeners to reappraise their prejudices about religion. She has addressed the US Congress and Senate, and as a testament to her bridge-building abilities she has filled venues across the Muslim world, including Malaysia, Turkey, Jordan, Singapore, Egypt and Pakistan where up to 5000 have come out to hear her.
She has written over 16 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths have shaped world history and drive current events.
She came to the Intelligence Squared stage to talk about her forthcoming book 'Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence'. Journeying from prehistoric times to the present, she contrasted medieval crusaders and modern-day jihadists with the pacifism of the Buddha and Jesus’ vision of a just and peaceful society. And she demonstrated that the underlying reasons – social, economic, political – for war and violence in our history have often had very little to do with religion. Instead, Armstrong celebrated the religious ideas and movements that have opposed war and aggression and promoted peace and reconciliation.
Buddhist Women As Agents of Change: Case Studies from Thailand and Indonesia
http://kyotoreview.org/yav/buddhist-women-as-agents-of-change/
Buddhist Women As Agents of Change: Case Studies from Thailand and Indonesia
by Lai Suat Yan
RE Regional Strategy
RE Regional Strategy
Based on Recommendation 4 of the 2013 Review of RE, the REC, NATRE and Culham St Gabriel’s have launched the RE Regional Strategy Pilot to ensure that there are more robust arrangements for training and supporting teachers of RE across the country. There are now 13 RE hubs supported by CSTG and several operating independently or in partnerships with universities and NATRE, which are developing their own regional strategies, adapted and suited to their own professional development priorities; we hope that this exciting initiative will lead to real, grass-roots improvements in the quality of RE. CSTG is also supporting primary schools that are working towards an Ofsted ‘Good’, to encourage them to develop their RE, and is aiming to work with 100 primary schools in the north-east and north-west – further details of this will be published on the CSTG and RE Online websites in early 2015.GCSE and A Level reform: Religious Studies
GCSE and A Level reform: Religious Studies
The RE Council of England and Wales welcomes the consultation on the criteria for GCSE and A Level examinations in Religious Studies (closed 29 December 2014) and is pleased that its officers and member organisations have contributed to the process which has been led by the Department for Education. We have encouraged our member organisations to join us in responding to the consultation document, and the RE Council Board’s response is available to view on the REC website. Ofqual is consulting in parallel on the assessment arrangements for all subjects, with their consultation closing on 5 January 2015. The Ofqual consultation can be viewed here.REC Newsletter Jan 2015
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a742773f8f89e11e47d388c29&id=27033152ce&e=a0f1d3deed
REC Newsletter Jan 2015
In This Issue
- Farewell and thank you to Sarah!
- GCSE and A Level reform: Religious Studies
- Young Ambassadors for RE
- RE PD Portal
- RE Quality Mark
- New on the RE Council website
- RE Regional Strategy
- #rechatuk by NATRE
- Farmington Fellowships for teachers of RE: Open for 2015
- Strictly RE: the first ever NATRE national conference
- New RE syllabuses include Humanism
- Diocese of Norwich SMSC publication
- Teach:RE course
- 3forRE
- Interfaith Explorers launches new website
- 'Young Voices, Young Agents for Change'
- Jewish Living Experience in Carlisle
- Hindu Response to Philosophic Challenges for A Level RS
Dr. Bonnie Thurston - I Woke Up: Thomas Merton and Buddhism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak9cZ4OE29A&feature=youtu.be
Dr. Bonnie Thurston - I Woke Up: Thomas Merton and Buddhism
Published on Sep 12, 2012
"I Woke Up: Thomas Merton and Buddhism"
Lecture by Dr. Bonnie Thurston (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) for the 2005 Swanson Lectures in Spirituality
November 14th, 2005
Lecture by Dr. Bonnie Thurston (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) for the 2005 Swanson Lectures in Spirituality
November 14th, 2005
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