Neil McKain

Neil McKain

Neil is a head of RS in Buckinghamshire and currently serves on the executive of the National Association of Teachers of RE. He graduated in Theology and RS from the University of Leeds in 2002 and has an MA in Philosophy and Religion from Heythrop College, University of London. He completed a Farmington Fellowship project in 2012, exploring the use of formal debating in RE. He is an educational adviser for TrueTube and maintains a great interest in the effective use of digital technology in RE. He blogs at The Cursed Fig Tree.

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Tuesday, 23 June 2015 10:00

Reflections of a Religious Studies head

I’ve been thinking a lot about these words in the last month or so. Having been head of RS at a boys’ grammar school for the last seven years, I’m taking up the same role at an independent girls’ day school in September. Eliot’s Little Gidding, from which these words are taken, is perhaps his most theological poem. Themes of time, death and incarnation pervade the work and he ends by quoting the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich:

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