An extended presentation on the issue of biblical inspiration. It covers both Objective and Subjective views, as well as the ramifications of holding to each. Included are references to early Church fathers and Karl Barth.

This is a power point and silent debate sheet for an A level lesson of Calvin’s doctrine of accommodation. The power point is relatively brief which allows students to spend the second half of the double doing activities. I had mine do a silent debate (they had a hand out which was an extract from the Eduqas textbook and 10 mins to read it and highlight) They really did well and enjoyed it a lot, much to my surprise as this isn’t the most interesting unit for them!

This will be the first of many, I should get round to the others before easter. I have completed the boxes to show what it ought to look like when they have filled in their blank ones. It covers the key words, 4,5 mark questions for each topic (in this case Nature of God in Christianity) I plan to give them each a filled in one for every topic at easter, but that should be as a ‘top up’ rather than a do it for them.

This lesson is extracted from the pages on the development of Christian thought, with reference to wealth and poverty and prosperity gospel. It basically follows the text book, hopefully saves you sometime!

This is just a simple ‘welcome back’ lesson for Religious Studies GCSE. It just goes over expectations etc.

This lesson covers the Trinity, it deals with misconceptions as well as covering the exam content. Included is a couple of engaging activities and hopefully clears up what is actually quite a difficult topic to understand! Lots of opportunity for exam technique

This game is played in similar fashion to a well known one. The person with the highest score wins… Excellent for revision or just giving students a general context of philosophy.

This lesson covers both the resurrection and the ascension, the video may take a moment to load, if it stays a blank white box the plug in hasn’t activated so the ppt just needs to be re opened. There are a variety of activities designed to be modified, dropped in and out depending on your students and time table. There is an evaluation activity looking at the evidence and arguments around the resurrection.

This is actually quite a convoluted topic, what you realise very quickly is that Christians have lots of different ideas about heaven and hell because the Bible is actually rather vague on exactly what happens. The best part of the lesson is the activity where they have to rate how ‘good’ the various famous people are. I printed those slides out and got students to hold them. They then stand in a line and move along it based on the relative ‘goodness’ of the other celebrities. The crunch bit of the learning comes when you get to the last one - God. Ask the class if it looks right that God is right next to (normally MLK) because that suggests God is only a little better, it requires the rest of the names to shuffle down to get further away from God. In my classroom they end up lining up against the side of the class opposite God. It shows really clearly that from God’s perspective, humans are all sinful and evil and no matter how much good they’ve done, they are not worthy to get to heaven. My year 10s got a lot out of this activity. I’ve tried to steer the lesson simple but I have a theology degree so if you’re not confident in certain bits, just cut it or simplify it. The diagram maybe useful if you want to teach it to that depth. I would say that it is important to mention that a Christian isn’t just someone who goes to church or even identifies as one, it is someone who truly believes that Jesus has died for their sins, not simply that non-Christians go to hell but they go because they are not forgiven. Also worth mentioning that many Christians these days are unsure if God really does send people to eternal punishment, maybe they still get to go to heaven - we don’t know.

This is probably better taught over two lessons. Here we have slides for communion and baptism. The activity around communion can be adapted, it’s essentially a comparison activity.

Can be a quick lesson, a couple of good videos that can serve as useful discussion points. exam style questions included in the presentation.

Another simple lesson on festivals, I actually had mine do a research homework leading in to this. I recommend combining this lesson with another shorter one.

This lesson covers the work of three charities including street pastors, Trussell trust abd the oasis project (Carousel activity) It also includes some really helpful videos on street pastors and Trussell trust.

This lesson looks at the growth (or decline) of the church in the UK as well as the rapid growth of the church across the rest of the world. It goes into detail on CFAN, using a video from their website. The video shows people falling over in the Holy Spirit so please be aware and do make a teaching point out of the beliefs in the video.

This is a longer lesson on Islam, it serves as an introductory outlining the history and cultural setting before moving on to look at Sunni and Shi’a Islam. There are a few embedded videos to make things more interesting and the final activity can be adapted to make it more creative or dynamic (carousel) as the info sheet is included.

This lesson covers the nature of God in Islam, it looks at the nature of God as ‘one’ , and explores why there are no images of God. There are a number of questions and activities included in the power point.

This lesson looks at the 99 names of God, as well as exploring the ideas of God’s immanence and transcendence. There’s a number of activities to choose between, I used the debate one as a table debate and had them circulating and writing on the table with the whiteboard pens!