Autumn 2026

Theme: Future-facing RE

Highlights from this issue:

• Forward through pilgrimage and prayer: in an exclusive interview, Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell talks about school RE, reflecting on the importance and lessons of pilgrimage and the Lord’s Prayer
• Change is gonna come: Ian Nicholson outlines key dates and the decision timetable as RE moves closer to statutory status in the National Curriculum
• A new generation: Karen Steele asks where will the RE teachers of the future come from? How can potential and newly-qualified teachers be supported, and who are they?
• Future-proofing RE: Steven Gibson considers the inevitable presence of AI in the classroom and how a subject concerned with truth, authority and ethics can establish a discerning approach
• Where is our world heading? Gideon Burrows looks at modern concerns around climate crisis through ancient teachings to study the problem of anthropogenic evil’
• Faith and learning for neurodivergent and autistic pupils: Dr Henna Cundill from the Centre for Autism and Theology at Aberdeen University is interviewed by Lat Blaylock 
• Real voices: personal thoughts on how their worldview envisions and hopes to shape the future from four individual perspectives – Sentientist, Shi‘a Muslim, Buddhist and Jewish
• A harvest experience for SEND+ pupils: Charlotte Rimmer describes how she adopted a special new identity to share the significance of harvest with EYFS learners 

And much more!