Philip Barnes Westminsted address

(This is the transcript of a talk delivered on Tuesday, 12th March in the Jubilee Room, Palace of Westminster, to a symposium on “What should high-quality religious education look like?) In this short presentation, I interact with some of the main proposals of the...

Religion in schools is too important to marginalise

Monsignor Michael Nazir-Ali published this article in the Times at the end of January, in which he urges stronger support for religion-based RE in schools, and rejects the subject’s morphing into a ‘worldviews’ approach as something which does an injustice to...