Why should the Devil have all the best technology?

St Martin-in-the-Fields will host a Churches Together in Westminster Reformation 500 event on Christian Education as part of our Bread for the World Service on Wednesday 13 September, 6.30pm. The Service will be organised with St Anne’s Lutheran Church London and Revd Eliza Zikmane. It will focus on Martin Luther’s legacy to Christian Education through the Small Catechism by asking the question, Why should the Devil have all the best technology?

Bread for the World is a great way to find focus during a busy week. With music led by the Choral Scholars of St Martin’s, we share the Eucharist in church followed by a simple soup supper in 6 St Martin’s Place with the opportunity to reflect on and explore the bible together in small groups.

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Martin Luther - O Lord, Look Down from Heaven, Behold.

Values and the life of Christ

Yesterday I had the privilege of sharing some thoughts about the values of Christianity with an RE class at Little Heath School. Here is a link to the report on the visit that has been posted on the school website - http://news.lheath.net/2014/12/reverend-evens.html. We thought about values of empathy and self-sacrifice by looking at several different images.

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Luxury - To You Who Gave Me Hope And Were My Light.

The Five Keys into RE

“The Five Keys into RE – a new way of planning for Teachers of RE in Special Schools” is a new way of planning Religious Education for pupils with special needs in English and Welsh schools, presenting a simple structure that helps bond pupils’ distinctive life experiences and understandings to the study of religion and human experience. 'The approach.takes a child centred approach to create authentic RE learning experiences that spring from the child’s needs.

The Five Keys Grid takes five key categories to help the teacher focus their planning:

• Connection
• Knowledge
• Senses
• Symbols
• Values

and then for each Key the Focus and then the Activities are developed.'

This approach was joint first prize winner of the NATRE-Hockerill Award for Innovation in RE Teaching, 2011. 

Anne Krisman, who developed the approach, was part of the recent East London Three Faiths Forum Tour of the Holy Land and is Head of Religious Education at Little Heath School, London Borough of Redbridge. See here and here for posts of art-related RE work designed by Anne.

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Ofra Haza - Kol Haolam Kulo.