This is a series of 11 slides depicting Jesus as Asian, mostly Chinese or Indian. It is in process as many images are not the right shape for a ppt slide so I will have to adjust them in Adobe. But it does give a great idea of the way that Christians everywhere think of Jesus as their Brother, as their Friend, His divine aspect is beyond the confines of one time or place, one nation or race.

Life, Death and Funeral Rites - an experiential - spiritual approach - arising from a question on Save RE forum, I have outlined an experiential/spiritual approach which you may like to adapt to your situation. \n\nI aim to add background info re some different religions and denominations, some 'order of service&' sheets from real funerals, poems and texts interesting obituaries, music and videos - suggestions welcome.\n\nthis is such an important topic and not easy to engage with - so I hope this helps. Your comments and feedback welcome as always.

My blogs are of interest as a commentary on life - from what is often a spiritual perspective. This one is mainly about a mixed-ability Group-Work project that my Yr 8 class enjoyed and although it was a History project on the Fire of London it's using an approach which can be used for almost any topic.

How would Britain be a different country if it were Jewish.This was the brief I was given last term for an interview lesson which didn't materialise. (Because it was close to the end of term they decided they didn't have enough time to arrange it and will just use non-specialist cover.) Initially I planned a lesson using Christmas and reflecting on festivals - as that was topical - but they wanted me to include some info on synagogue. So this the result.Beginning by asking what does it mean to be a Christian country it ends with an overview of church and synagogue. not finished but still a useful resource. I'll polish it up if I have time.Love and PeaceDurgaMata

Rachel Kemp is the \nRE Coordinator working in several Primary Schools in Manchester. She is well-known for her passion for exploring the spiritual aspect of life and her skill with engaging children of all ages with this elusive subject.\n\nHere Rachel shares some recent work done with year 6 pupils about the subject of spirituality. \n\nThis resource is being created by Rachel Kemp in collaboration with DurgaMata at Blue Lotus Enterprises.

Some articles about RE in Britain and around the world. I will add more as I come across them,

Some initial ideas for engaging our pupils with these two important topics.\n\nI will add to these but at least this will help you start thinking of ways to engage with your pupils' own life experience and be able to learn from what the religions teach about these subjects.\n\njust came on here to add a file and found this is not downloading! Not surprising then to have a bad rating. \n\nI will try to put this right.

thoughts about Groupwork with a nice example on the Guru Granth Sahib.\n \nThe power point is in process - but offers some good visual material. You can save any slide you like. Just put save as jpeg and then current slide for the ones you want. You can then insert them on a publisher file and arrange to print out as resources for the group-work exercise - I've done a few.\n\n+ info about Gurmurki and Shabad Guru (spiritual sound in the writings and songs of the Guru Granth.)\n\nThanks to ballykl (TES)and the Oadby Punjabi School for added files on Mool Mantra

a range of articles on these topics from Internet including about the relationship between Shia and Sunni Muslims in Pakistan (most recent example of Religious Prejudice resulting in deaths that I know of - in 2013.) and some history of the Israel/Palestine conflict. I will add to this should other examples arise.

21st Feb is about my son singing on ATN Bangla Television I am so proud and happy. What a joy and a privilege to be able to have such a son and a link to such an inspiring event.\n25th - 28th about my struggles to teach the lad I work with and my new priority for progress.\n14th March includes catch up about a difficult week and 15-16 a paragraph about walking and breathing meditation from a book I am reading by Satish Kumar\n25 April - 2nd May back from New York, Alex and Birmingham.

I try to share the things that are interesting, things that make me think about life - not just the outer details of my days.\nBecause I do have an active spiritual life and practise meditation daily, this may bring a slightly different and more interesting perspective to things.\nBut I also share some of my weaknesses and the battles I fight.\nI have been encouraged to continue my blog by some very kind and sincere teachers.\nI think we have little that we can offer to the world other than who we are - so this is a bit of me.\nHappy Christmas to everyone.

the latest in the series.\n\nthe one on 2nd and 5th describes the workshop I gave at the 12th International Conference on Children's Spirituality - and some observations that my friend has seen when taking children around the St Julian of Norwich Shrine and at Walsingham. This would be useful when exploring Spiritual Experience and religion in today's world.\n\nmore later

More articles and information will be added. Please give me a pm with suggestions.\n\nmore articles here - thanks for suggestions and please continue to keep them coming - also comment on how you may use these in class.\n\nI hope to continue to add to and update this resource\n\nThanks - DurgaMata

1) an article relating to racism and religious intolerance. \n2) about the Royal Christening/Baptism a compilation of articles and comments about them.\n3) about spirituality being on the rise despite a decline in religious practice. \n4) doing Church without God. A new atheist/secular movement bases its meetings on traditional church services.\n5) Mo Ansar and Tommy of the EDL + documentary-link.\nI would appreciate any suggestions which you may find - to make this resource stronger and more useful.

1 kittens, Joy Weekend\n2 Ipswich weekend inc photos Indian Independence Day.\nThird = Facing History Seminar (re Holocaust) \nBlogs from 20th August to 4th September - the Spiritual Festival in New York. a bit unusual.\n6th Sep - back home kittens celibacy and God Realisation. 7th (with pics) of my spiritual Teacher.\n9th - reflections on wealth and oneness.\n11th Birmingham Expedition and chocolate. \n13th house-share tensions. Posters for the Concert\n25th catch up on postering news and an interview\n2nd Oct. Postering + people in Birmingham\n11th Oct (from 4th) preparing for the concert

continuing blog. The first two files include photos of the kitties. The on on 25th also includes some reflections on the meaning and significance of birthdays.\n30th is about presentation skill training and my workshop next week.\n1st has some sheets for next weeks workshop.the scanned texts (which come from the Interfaith video/slide-show) are loaded separately + original slide-Show they go with. - see http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Reflections-On-Life-part-2-InterFaith-with-music-6079804/ for original plus music

starting a new 'chapter&' with May - hope you find this month interesting even though a bit disjointed. \n\nMore disjointing came when Mum fell in May.- a very tough month emotionally in work and in the family. But that makes it interesting spiritually too. Slowly trying to get back up to date.\nAugust now. still a week behind. Much time going into a resource for Peace and Conflict, looking at Gaza - my thoughts and prayers are with all affected by war in this troubled time. Aug 5th part 1 good for RE - reflecting on Peace Concert pilgrimage in 1985

this is a resource in process, but because it will be good if more people work on it than me - and because, inspired by some videos which my friends brought to my attention I would like to meet people who would be interested in creating some great interfaith discussion videos - I am making it available here at this early stage. \nTrue this is not a worksheet or power-point but different articles on an important RE topic, selected over a period of more than a week, is a very useful start. Love and Peace DurgaMata

celebrates the relationship between a Spiritual Teacher / students or disciples, a time when Hindus re-dedicate themselves to their spiritual life. There are parallels here Islam during Ramadan and Judaism in celebrating the Sabbath. \n\na summary of Wikki on this, as a separate file, with questions is in process. If anyone uses this and would like to share lesson plan and feedback, that would be great. I aim to create some activities around this information.\n\nHappy Guru Purnima.

Here are poems and quotations about sport and the spiritual life from the Sri Chinmoy Library site. \nThese cover topics such as the World Harmony Run (also called the Peace Run) the Six and Ten Day endurance ultramarathon races - and then as many good and relevant quotes as I could gather in about three hours of researching. \n\nThese form a great resource to dip into if you are asked to do cross-curricular work on sport and religion.