Teaching and learning in American congregations
We’re pleased to share the recently released article by Dr. Joseph Crockett, “Teaching and Learning in American Congregations.” Dr. Crockett represents the NCC and serves on the CCSP (Cooperative...
View Article2016 Plenary One video available
As the New Year begins we will be posting video recordings of the plenary sessions from our 2016 annual meeting. Here is the first one, Bert Roebben’s presidential address, which opened the meeting....
View Article2016 Plenary Two available
Here is the next in our series of 2016 annual meeting plenaries. This is the second plenary, which focused on bringing biographical narratives to bear on the question of finding hope in the midst of...
View ArticleLatest eREACH available
The January edition of eREACH is now available, full of useful resources, a reflection from our incoming president Bert Roebben, and more!
View Article2016 Plenary Three available
The third main plenary from our 2016 annual meeting, held in Pittsburgh, PA from 4-6 November 2016 is now available at vimeo. David Hansen, the Weinberg Professor in the Historical and Philosophical...
View Article100 days, 100 letters
There is a new effort underway — American Values, Religious Voices— to have religious scholars send 100 letters in the first 100 days of the new administration in DC. The letter writers have already...
View Article2016 Plenary Four available
The fourth main plenary from our 2016 annual meeting, held in Pittsburgh, PA from 4-6 November 2016 is now available at vimeo. Reggie Nel, University of South Africa, and Elizabeth Conde-Frazier,...
View ArticleReligion and Civics education
The Robert Wagner School of Public Service at NYU has put together a five module program – video presentations, facilitator guides and other resources — on religion and civics education in the US. This...
View ArticleWornom Innovation Grant application available
We are pleased to announce a new funding opportunity in religious education. The Wornom Innovation Grant seeks proposals for entirely new projects, for innovative developments within an existing...
View ArticleCFP: Games and Learning in Religion and Theology
The Wabash Journal Teaching in Religion and Theology seeks essays in a variety of genres and lengths that analyze how games and gameful learning are being utilized – and/or resisted — in religious...
View ArticleProceedings as RE text
For the last few years we have been producing formal proceedings from our annual meetings with nicely designed covers, page formatting, and so on. These publications are not receiving the kind of use...
View ArticleDirectories of Interfaith work around the world
Special thanks to Scarboro Missions of Canada for this list of organizations. These four directories feature interfaith organizations in various parts of the world, and demonstrate the dramatic growth...
View ArticleFree access to curated articles
Please help us share this announcement widely: our journal, Religious Education, is making available free to people who are neither members nor subscribe to the journal, a specifically curated set of...
View ArticlePope Francis offers a TED talk
Pope Francis does something no other pope has done — record a TED talk! This TED talk is a lovely distillation of Pope Francis’ thought, and further, offers a profound definition of and exhortation...
View ArticleCDF Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy summer program
Exciting details of a long line up of fabulous speakers and workshop leaders have been released for the Children’s Defense Fund 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy. This is a...
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4th Horizons book coming out soon!
We are so excited to note that our Horizons imprint series of monographs in Religious Education is about to release the fourth book: Arm in Arm with Adolescent Girls: Educating into the New Creation,...
View ArticleJuly E-REACH available online
The latest E-REACH is now publicly available on our website. Check it out for news of our upcoming annual meeting, messages from our president, program chair, and executive secretary and news from...
View ArticleREA Statement on the synagogue attack in Pittsburgh
Today the Steering Committee of the Board of the Religious Education Association issued the following statement. We urge you to share it widely. REA Statement on the Synagogue Attack in Pittsburgh The...
View ArticleNew ecumenical studies degree at Bonn
Bert Roebben, past-president and program chair of the REA, is pleased to announce a new degree in ecumenical studies that his university — Universität Bonn — is offering. We rejoice with him in this...
View ArticleInterfaith Leadership and Religious Literacy grant competition
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundation is actively seeking proposals on interfaith leadership and religious literacy. Please see the extensive information available at their website.
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