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 Religious Education Association (REA) is shocked and saddened by the recent vicious attack on Sabbath worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in […]
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The Presbyterian Mission Agency has created a scholarship fund to honor the name and legacy of the late Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, a pioneer and legend in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The Women’s Ministry Fund (E049991) supports Presbyterian women of color, clergywomen, college women, and other women with opportunities for leadership and spiritual development
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The dates (3-5 September 2018) and application details have been released for the Third International Islamic Education Summer School at Warwick. The Summer School is open to all researchers and educators who are interested in developing their understanding of the educational culture and pedagogic practice within Muslim communities and their interaction with wider social and
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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, written by Emily Peck-McClain. As the publisher notes, “Adolescent girls are filled with passion, excitement, joy, critique, wit, and energy, even
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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 marvelous opportunity to learn with and from some of the most effective child advocates in the country, and to do so in
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The May 1st deadline to submit a response to our call for proposals will soon be here. Please make sure to read our guidelines carefully before you submit to our online system. We’d also love to have you share the call out widely — we are trying to reach many people with this theme who
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The Taha Al-Alwani Lectures in Muslim-Christian Dialogue will be presented this year on March 14, 2018 from 6 to 9 pm, at the El-Hibri Foundation in DC. Dr. Mualla Selçuk, our current president, will be speaking along with Dr. Ian Markham, from Virginia Theological Seminary. The title of their lectures is “Religious Education in a
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Theopoetics is holding a conference for “thinkers, doers, and makers” March 9 and 10th, just outside of Boston at the Walker Conference Center. Theopoetics has set up a discount code for REA member (REAMEMBER) that will give you 10% off the conference price. I’ve held events at the Walker Center — it’s a lovely old
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Mualla Selçuk, Halis Albayrak and John Valk announced a number of months ago that their book ( An Islamic Worldview from Turkey: Religion in a Modern, Democratic and Secular State) would soon be published. They would now like to announce that it has been published and is available for purchase, either as hardcopy or ebook. Furthermore,
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At our recent meeting in St. Louis, the REA Board decided to encourage people to write letters informing the US government about our concern over the travel ban. Several members of our association were not able to be with us in St. Louis — one in particular had a visa denied — and we all
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