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You can now register for our annual meeting here, utilizing PayPal for payment (which allows you to use a variety of credit cards as well as a checking account).
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I’m so excited about the upcoming annual meeting of the REA/APPRRE, not least because the latest issue of our journal just came out and I think it’s a wonderful, microcosmic example of what our field is about. Just look at the titles (and this issue should be available online through most libraries): “Religious education and
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Sightings, a University of Chicago/Martin Marty Center publication, writes of the thorny dilemma currently being lived through in England around admissions to Jewish schools. Who gets to decide, when the competition is steep, who is Jewish? Is the test for that decision a practice-oriented test or a test of belief or a test of matrilineal
Religious identity: Who decides? Read More »
I’m very excited to announce that on Tuesday morning, November 9th, the REA Forum on Religious Education in Academic Disciplines and Institutions will host a plenary panel discussion (and then mini-plenaries, with one speaker per room) on emerging questions and pressing challenges in the field of religious education. We have a wonderful line-up of presenters
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I’ve been trying to coax Ronald Moore, who is the producer of both Battlestar Galactica and Caprica, to come to our November meeting and talk about it. So far, no success (but he hasn’t turned us down yet!). In any case, for those of you who have no idea what Battlestar Galactica is about, you
For those of you who are new to blogging, you might find the Social Science Research Council‘s recent report on the “the religion blogosphere” an interesting resource. The report, available both as a website and in .pdf form, includes a brief introduction to the role of blogs in the wider media sphere, as well as
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Here’s a conference, being held April 11-13 in Rochester, NY, that some of you might be interested in. It’s focused on interfaith understanding, and is full of creative interaction through art and music-based events.
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The board of the REA/APRRE just concluded our annual working retreat, and we held it in the same hotel in which we’ll be meeting in November, the Denver Renaissance. I’m happy to report that it’s a very comfortable hotel, and we enjoyed the food and the amenities. I do want, however, to let you know
Looking forward to Denver in November Read More »
A set of numbers seeking to describe the ‘net these days. (Hat tip to FreeRangeLearning)
The state of the internet Read More »
The Interfaith Youth Core has started to put together a weekly digest of news which might be of interest to interfaith learners — it’s definitely worth checking out!
Interfaith news digest Read More »