ABSTRACT
‘Learning’ a script requires first wanting to learn it, and that requires – particularly in the context of religious education – some sense that the script holds something of value. In some ways, this aspect of ‘enacting’ our script holds much in common with the ways in which religious education has traditionally been understood, particularly when that process took on the depth elements of socialization into religious community. Immersing people in liturgical celebrations, placing beautiful children’s books with explicit religious language into the midst of bedtime reading rituals, adding candles and flowers to family prayer, teaching biblical stories through music – these are all examples of traditional Christian practices. Instead religious educators need to think about the ways in which we can invite religious resonance that is always and everywhere present, into our lives every day and in every way.
