The Free Churches Group is working with RE Today Services and Methodist Schools to create a free resource for Anti-racist RE.
Lat Blaylock from RE Today Services, the lead developer of the resource, said,
“I’m really pleased to be working with the Free Churches Group, the Methodist Church and a wide range of teachers of RE from black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities on a resource project for anti-racist RE. It has been really pleasing to gain the interest of many hundreds of schools already in this work. We’ve begun developing resources that will challenge learners in RE lessons to think more carefully about race. We hope to engage with questions of justice, religious perspectives and ways to reduce prejudice and the harms it causes. RE has a very long commitment to enabling learning from diversity, but I do think we are currently needing refreshed approaches to the challenges posed by questions about racial justice.”
The resource will be available for schools from September and will be free to download and use from the Free Churches Group website.
The project follows the success of Reforming Christianity, a resource that the same team developed, and which is available on the Free Churches Group website https://www.freechurches.org.uk/reforming-christianity
Both projects have been funded by the Westhill Endowment, meeting the need to provide more resources in RE that reflect Free Church perspectives.
(image below from RE Today Services, cover photo by Agence Olloweb at Unsplash)
