The RE Podcast
The RE podcast for students and teachers.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 204
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
S8 E10: The One About Philosophy in Prison
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Andy West has made national news with his work using philosophy in prisons.
Read his article here
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/02/philoso…
S8 E9: The One About Cancer
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This is a tough topic, but in a country where someone is diagnosed with cancer every 2 minutes, leading to 1000 new diagnosis a day, it feels like one I didn…
S8 E8: The One About Holi
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The day I release this episode is Holi - the most revered festival from Hindu Dharma with colour powder and bonfires. It marks the end of the cold dark wint…
S8 E7: The One About Addiction Recovery and Spirituality
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I am so grateful that Dr. Wendy Dossett has agreed to come back on the podcast to talk about something she is deeply passionate and deeply knowledgable abou…
*The RE Podcast 100th Anniversary Episode*
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In this very special episode I celebrate just some of the amazing people that have made it possible for The RE Podcast to get to 100th episode.
However, I als…
S8 E6: The One About Poverty
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As we are facing a cost of living crisis, and as many public sector workers are striking to secure urgent funding to these essential services, it feels timel…
S8 E5: The One About Salvation
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What is Salvation?
How do you get it?
Are there different ways?
Who gets it?
How do I teach it?
I look at the history of Salvation, what we call the 'arc of …
S8 E4: The One About Angels
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I'm fascinated with the idea of angels so was so excited to have this chat with Stephen Miller, author of 'The book of Angels: Seen and Unseen.'
What does the…
S8 E3: The One About Religion And Art
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In this weeks episode we take our attention to religion and art with Dr. Siobhan Jolley, curator of art and religion at the National Gallery. We discover her…
EXTRA BITS from this Friday's episode
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I have a #patreon page. If you are able to support #TheREPodcast financially, then you will get access to extra parts of the recording that get edited out, …
S8 E2: The One About Animal Welfare
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Do you teach 'Animal Rights' as part of your religion and life syllabus?
I have an informative and frank chat with David Clough from CEFAW (The Christian Ethi…
S8 E1: The One About The Science And Religion Animation
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Happy New Year 2023 to you all and welcome back to Season 8 of The RE Podcast. If you teach Science and Religion then you are not going to want to miss this …
S7 E14: The One About the 2021 Census
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On June 28th 2021, Britain completed a census. On 29th November, some of the data was released. And this data was of particular interest to RE teachers, lea…
S7 E13: The One About Hajj
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Hajj is a once in a lifetime experience for some Muslims, but my guest today has done it twice. So I talk to her about her experience so we can have an auth…
S7 E12: The One About Decolonising Buddhism
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In this incredible chat with Dr. Wendy Dossett we dive into the last of our decolonisation episodes and this time we turn to Buddhism. This episodes has rea…
S7 E11: The One About Interfaith RE
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As this week is Interfaith week, I have a chat with Dr David Lundie about what interfaith RE looks like. We discuss the concept of God, religion and Jesus f…
S7 E10: The One About A Trip To The Holy Land
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Would you like to come with me to a trip to the Holy Land next year? See the roads Jesus walked on, make the trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem, as Mary did, e…
S7 E9: The One About The Historical Jesus
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Goodness I learnt so much from this episode! Was there a Jesus, is the Bible talking about different people, when were the gospels written, what is the his…
S7 E8: The One WIth An Exorcist Halloween special
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As we approach Halloween we bring our attention to things that go bump in the night, and I bring you a real life exorcist. To protect him and the identitie…
S7 E7: The One About Decolonising Islam
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In the next installment of decolonising the curriculum, Ash Kundi and I have an amazing chat with Shabnam Khaliq about decolonising Islam. Sabnam is passiona…