Dave Francis and Denise Cush examine the opportunities offered by the 2025 Curriculum and Assessment Review, and consider the advantages and disadvantages of including RE in the National Curriculum.
Part 1: Keeping Faith in Religion and Worldviews Education (RE) by Dave Francis and Denise Cush We have both dedicated our working lives, and even quite a bit of our retirement to date, to the...
By Denise Cush, Dave Francis, Philippa Hulme & Michael J. Reiss Since its inception, in 1989, the Sea of Faith Network has been proactive in launching several educational projects and programmes. Notably, in 2013, Solarity¹...
Our 2025 conference theme, Education for this Life, celebrated the growing educational work of the network through the Solarity online materials for Religion and Philosophy Clubs, and through being a key partner of the Big...
Denise Cush reviews Religion and Generation Z: Why 70% of Young People Say They Have No Religion. Christian Alternative Books, (Alresford: 2022), Pbk. 151 pages. £11.99. It is now widely acknowledged that there has been...
The story of Solarity as an educational project of the SOF Network begins in 2006. The future of the Network itself was being questioned, perhaps as it still is by many today. Would anybody really...
Denise Cush engages with the changing religious landscape in Britain. In a lecture given at the British Academy in January 2016, Professor Linda Woodhead made the startling claim that as of December 2015, the majority...
Life Spirit: For groups and individuals exploring deep questions. Lindsey Press (London 2015). Pbk. 123 pages. £8. Sociologists of Religion tell us that there is an increasing number of people who are not active members...
