Reflections+on+the+Contemporary+Context

Generation of having more choices, maybe an overload so makes it difficult. New generations more willing to talk about their faiths.
 * Reflections on the Contemporary Context for RE: **

Pluralisation offers possibilities but sometimes this makes for difficulties. Have to find new ways to speak to them.

Catholic teachers a little timid about teaching the faith. Need to let the barriers go. Diversity can allow us to appreciate our own

Sharing stories model quite good but sometimes influenced by media.

Secular society still needs a spirituality

Does belief in God really make a difference?

Clear in our practising of the faith not just to conform

Catholic schools meeting of the ways, good place to dialogue about core beliefs.

This is the context we all work in – some students attending temple and church. Is this a search?

This is a space that we can dialogue, but is the sense of choice making us rudderless.

Where we are now is where we have been before. Our narrative in Australia is bigger than that coming to faith from different perspectives.

Securalisation does not have all the answers. It could be a force for religion. This may be the way the spirit is moving. Narrowing our view about who God is.