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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 also want to celebrate you, my amazing listener. Back in October 2020, I could not concieve that people would listen to me rattling on about RE - but goes to show how much I know.

In this episode I also tell the story of how the RE Podcast came about, what I have learnt from the podcast and some of my favourite episodes. 

I hope you all know how much doing this means to me.

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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 timely to do an episode on Poverty. 

• What is it?
• What causes it?
• What are the effects of it?
• What are the solutions?
• How do we best teach it in our classrooms and how do we deal with it in our schools?

I think this episode will relate to any educator, not just RE teachers so please share it far and wide!

I chat to Sean Harris ( @SeanHarris_NE ) who is a trust improvement lead, educator, journalist and author and who is currently doing a PHd related to poverty and Louisa Harrop an advisor to the Litchfield Diocese.

• Blair & Raver: Poverty, stress and brain development: New directions for prevention and intervention, Academic Paediatrics, 2016.
• Hackman & Farah: Socioeconomic status and the developing brain. Trends in Cognitive Science, January 2009: https://bit.ly/3FMvT6X
• Hanson et al: Family poverty affects the rate of human infant brain growth, PLoS ONE 8, December 2013.
• Harris: Doorstep disadvantage: Beyond the Pupil Premium, SecEd, May 2021: https://bit.ly/3kjax8v
• Harris: Crafting curriculum with disadvantage in mind, SecEd. 2021. https://www.sec-ed.co.uk/best-practice/crafting-your-curriculum-with-poverty-in-mind-disadvantage-pupil-premium-teaching-schools/
• Jensen: Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What being poor does to kids’ brains and what schools can do about it, ASCD, 2009.
• Harris: Neurology of poverty, SecEd, 2022 https://www.sec-ed.co.uk/best-practice/poverty-on-the-brain-five-strategies-to-counter-the-impact-of-disadvantage-in-the-classroom-cognitive-function-pupil-premium-pedagogy/

• Marmot et al: Build Back Fairer: Covid-19, Marmot Review, The Health Foundation, 2021.
• McLaughlin, Sheridan & Lambert: Childhood adversity and neural development: Deprivation and threat as distinct dimensions of early experience, Neuroscience and Biobehavorial Reviews (47), 2014.
• Noble, Houston & Brito: Family income, parental education and brain structure in children and adolescents, Nature Neuroscience (18), 2015: https://go.nature.com/3nKTO0K
• Raizada, Richards, Meltzoff & Kuhl: Socioeconomic status predicts hemispheric specialisation of the left inferior frontal gyrus in young children, Neuroimage (40,3), 2008.
• Rowland: Addressing educational disadvantage in schools and colleges: The Essex Way, Unity Research School & Essex County Council, 2021: https://bit.ly/3AlHHMz
• SecEd Podcast: Tackling the consequences of poverty, June 2021: https://bit.ly/3cUETeH
• Wagmiller: The temporal dynamics of childhood economic deprivation and children’s achievement, Child Development Perspectives (9), 2015.

Some additional organisational links

• Poverty Proofing© the School Day - Children North East (children-ne.org.uk)
  
  

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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 salvation' from the fall to the law to sacrifice to good deeds to Jesus and grace all the way through to the spirit. 
How are they different and what is the relationship between them?
I also look at how to teach it and there is a quick exam focus at the end.
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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 word 'angel' actually mean? What actually are angels? Are they all the same? Where did belief in angels come from?  What is the best film to watch about them plus much much more!
Stephen mentions quite a few pieces of art so here is a list of them so you don't have to write them down!

William Blake, When the Morning Stars Sang Together, pen & ink and watercolour, ca. 1804-1807, The Morgan Library and Museum, New Yor

Francesco Botticini, Assumption of the Virgin, 1475-76, The National Gallery, London

Carved relief from the Palace of Sargon II, 722-705 BC, featuring a four-winged deity from the Assyrian palace at Khorsabad

Winged Victory of Samothrace, ca. 220-185 BC

 Alessandro Botticelli, The Mystical Nativity, ca. 1500-01, The National Gallery, London, photo Lucy Miller

William Blake, Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels, watercolour painted 1808, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Alexandre Cabanel, The Fallen Angel, 1847, Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Frans Floris, The Fall of the Rebel Angels (the surviving middle panel), 1554, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Caravaggio, The Inspiration of Saint Matthew, 1602, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome

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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 route on this path, what opportunities there are to use art in the classroom, her favourite piece of art, and why art in the British museum is White, European and Christian. We also discuss two exciting projects The Fruits of the Spirit exhibition and the Sin exhibition, as well as the Digital Bible Image project at KCL. All links below!

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/across-the-uk/sin#:~:text=This%20exhibition%20looks%20at%20theological,own%20meaning%20of%20'Sin'.

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/research-resources/exhibition-catalogues/fruits-of-the-spirit-art-from-the-heart

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/archive/news/kings/newsrecords/2016/12%20december/ground-breaking-digital-biblical-image-project-launched

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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 Ethics of Farmed Animal Welfare) challenging Christians to rethink their attitudes to eating animals in light of the farming techniques currently used and the climate crisis. We look at the biblical relationship with animals, and whether there is a biblical basis for veganism in terms of Stewardship and God's instructions on how we treat animals.
But we go one step further. Are animals part of the salvation story ie - are animals saved, will they be in heaven, can they worship God?
This is all done in the context of animal flourishing, rather than animal rights - David will explain the difference.
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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 episode.  Following the success of Nobody Stands Nowhere, Emily Downe has once again teamed up with Theos Think Tank to create another AMAZING short animation to help faciliate an understanding of the relationship between Science and Religion. The link to this 3 minute animation, called Worlds Apart, is; 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXXj_YB--_g

Watch it before you listen to this episode and then again afterwards!

Then listen to my chat with it's creator, Emily Downe, as well as Nick Spencer from Theos think tank. 

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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, leaders and educators because it revealed the religious and ethnic make up of Britain.  For the first time since the dark ages, we are no longer a majority Christian country. But what does this mean for our country, our monarchy, our politics and our classrooms.  Back by popular demand, James D Holt reveals his early analysis and conclusions.  It is an accessible but complex look at this topic which I recommend to anyone interested in the reasons for, consequences of, and dangers of misinterpretting, the data!

Below are some of the links to things we reference in the episode.

James' two blogs:
https://jamesdholt.com/2022/11/29/other-religions-in-the-2021-england-and-wales-census/
https://jamesdholt.com/2022/11/30/difference-in-religion-2011-2021/

Regional map (scroll down to the bottom)
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/religion/bulletins/religionenglandandwales/census2021

Nabil Abdulrashid (X factor black Muslim comedian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toJEByRJeGQ

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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 authentic voice in our lessons!  
Shazia Nazlee Khan is Head of RE and Citizenship in Bradford, as well as director of learning for Humanities.
We disucss what Hajj is and the story behind it,  the preparations for Hajj, the practical elements and cost involved in getting there, the different rites that are performed once you are there, the best parts and hardest parts, what you gain from completing Hajj as well as some of the changes that are being made to improve the experience of Hajj for people.  Plus much much more! 
The documentary Shazia mentions is Excellence on Netflix.  Episode 1 focusses on what it takes to m,aintain the Great Mosque!
Connect with Shazia on Twitter @shaznazkhan

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