The Academy of Religious Leadership invites REA members to its Annual Gathering in Chicago, April 14-16, 2016 at the Hyatt Chicago Magnificent Mile. The meeting will begin on Thursday evening at 8pm (reception) and conclude Saturday at noon. The Steering Team of ARL looks forward to reconnecting with people in April. The presenters include new and long-time members […]
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Herrenhausen Conference: October 4-6, 2016, Hanover, Germany The long-held belief in the secularization thesis and the subsequent expectation that religion would gradually lose its societal relevance in public and scientific discourse led to religion being treated rather as a side issue. This has changed fundamentally in the wake of growing religious pluralization. In this respect,
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Join over 200 passionate, faithful leaders at FTE’s 2016 Christian Leadership Forum June 1-4, 2016 at the Georgia Tech Conference Center. Come exchange ideas, address challenges within your ministry, and explore how you might ignite young leaders in your midst to boldly lead differently through the church. If you are a pastor, chaplain, campus minister, leader of
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This is the fifth and final plenary session of the Religious Education Association’s 2015 annual meeting, held in Atlanta, Georgia. Program chair and incoming president Harold “Bud” Horell focused on the imagery of religious education and continuing the conversation as the association moves forward into the future.
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The fourth plenary at our recent annual meeting was focussed on the questions of religious education in public life, and specifically on caring for creation. Jennifer Ayres, Kyle Kramer and Timothy Van Meter all addressed these issues, and there was robust discussion following their presentations.
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The third plenary session of the REA annual meeting in 2015 featured Graham Rossiter exploring the topic of media and imagination in religious education. Marisa Crawford and Katherine Turpin offered responses.
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The second plenary session of the 2015 REA annual meeting featured Dr. Fred Edie (Duke Divinity) and Nick Stuart (Odyssey) exploring the power of imagination both within and outside of communities of faith.
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We have now placed video recordings of all of the plenary speakers from this 2015 meeting online. We will highlight each speaker in a news post here, and we encourage you to share the videos and use them in teaching. In the opening plenary of the 2015 meeting Emilie Townes focused on the challenges of imagination
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We have now placed video recordings of all of the plenary speakers from last November’s meeting online. We will highlight each speaker in a news post here, and we encourage you to share the videos and use them in teaching. In the opening plenary of the 2015 meeting Emilie Townes focused on the challenges of imagination
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Bert Roebben, our incoming annual meeting program chair, has posted a paper which further lays out some of his ideas for the upcoming meeting. Here’s the abstract: This contribution is situated in the European discourse on the role of the teacher of religious/worldview education in schools. Based on the assumption that every child and youngster has the
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