- CHRISTMAS BREAK 2020 -

Well, it’s been a hell of a year and it’s finally coming to an end! At the stroke of midnight January 1st 2021 there will be a magic cure to all the ills of 2020: COVID-19 will be no more, Trump will be resolved and Brexit will be easy. I joke, of course. The loosening of safety precautions for COVID around Christmas is going to be an unnecessary death sentence for many and we are in for a bleak winter ahead. But for now, take a rest and enjoy the two week break (or latest 14 days of self-isolation, depending on how your year has been!). We’ll be back with new posts again from Monday January 11th. See you then!

68. ABUSIVE THEOLOGY - Why LGBTQ+ Students Deserve Better From RE

“As a teacher of RE, and head of RE at my school, that we RE teachers are supposed to give oxygen to such ignorant and discriminatory views in our classrooms – and treat their prejudice and hurt as something that is to be respected – is something I find an outrage.“

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67. DISPATCHES FROM THE CAVE - Why Being "Realistic" Demands The Impossible

“The pandemic has shown just how flimsy “the way things are” actually are. From basic norms of social interaction to entire economic systems, COVID-19 has unwittingly acted as the liberating hand breaking the chains of Plato’s epistemological prisoner and dragging them out of the cave and into the light…This isn’t, however, a post about the coronavirus…“

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