Faraday kids

22/07/2026

Super excited to be joining the Christians in Science activities in the gravity venue this year, supported by funding!

If you, or your young people, will be at the Satellites festival in 2 WEEKS - do visit the Gravity venue for hands-on experiments, science-themed crafts, demos, an inflatable planetarium, a pop-up astronomical observatory and many opportunities to explore big questions about science and faith! It is going to be so much fun!

04/06/2026

✝ Meet Professor Simon Conway Morris, Emeritus Professor at University of Cambridge, and a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist whose work on funny-looking fossil creatures started a lifelong fascination with patterns in the wonderful tree of life. 🌳

This year, Simon was awarded the , for people who use science to explore deep questions about the and humanity’s place and purpose in it. He has done this, while also talking about science and religious faith to many people, including helping us answer some of the big questions young people ask!

You can find some of his wonderful ideas in '101 Big Questions about God and Science' SPCK Publishing

You can find out more about his journey in and , here: https://www.faradaykids.com/experts/ -conway-morris
Our 'meet the experts' page, introduces young people to some scientists, theologians and philosophers who have religious faith and who love to use their expertise to explore science-faith questions.

01/06/2026

🎉New resources available, for free!

❤️Following the fun had at our recent courses, we thought we'd share some activity sheets with you... some simple ways for youth workers to help young people, in contexts, celebrate as a gift from , encourage curiosity, and build bridges between scientific and religious questions.

We hope you enjoy them, and please let us know how you find them! We would love some pictures of 🌋messy volcanoes, 🚀noisy rockets, 🍹colourful mocktails and maybe even an edible insect or two if you're brave enough 🦗!

You can find further information, and download links, here: https://www.faradaykids.com/educators/resource/christian-youth-worker-activities/

You can find these activity sheets in , as kindly translated by CERIE, here: https://cerie.org/ressource/sciencefoimocktails/

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

27/04/2026

🔭🧫✝ We had such a fantastic start to our in-person course, focusing on exploring & with young people.

Thank you SO much everyone, for coming along, and for sharing your enthusiasm, experiences and insights with us. We are really looking forward to session 2 this week.

For those of you interested in joining us, there is still time to sign up for our online version of this course - running on Mondays, and starting 11 May.
(And signing up in the next 2 days will mean we can get a little package to you before the course starts, if you live in the UK).

Further details, here: https://www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/big-world-big-questions-exploring-science-and-faith-with-young-people-a-course-for-christian-youth-workers/

Thank you to The Church Schools of Cambridge for funding these courses, and to Romsey Mill for kind use of your wonderful facilities!

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

14/04/2026

We're really excited to hear Prof Michael Reiss speaking about the importance of about and in a time of global uncertainty - a public lecture to be held by The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. We'd love to see you there!

Date & Time: May 7, 2026 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location: Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College, Cambridge

We will be holding a public lecture on Thursday 7th May at 6pm. Our speaker will be Prof. Michael Reiss and his talk is entitled ‘The Importance of Teaching about Science and Religion in a Time of Global Uncertainty’.

31/03/2026

📖⚛️🧪🧬🔬🔭 The team were over the moon this morning to receive copies of this wonderful new book - Livro Das Maravilhas!

Thank you Associação Brasileira de Cristãos na Ciência for brightening our morning, and well done for all the amazing work that went into this beautiful Portuguese (br) translation of Scripture Union England and Wales Faraday kids 'Book of Wonders'. We hope it will be loved by many young people in Brazil who are excited to discover how science and Christian faith can help them explore the great mysteries of the universe.

You can find more details about the book by following their page, and visiting their website! Highly recommend!

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

23/03/2026

🧬🧪🔬 We had such a wonderful time at the Cambridge Festival event at Cambridge Academy for Science & Technology on Saturday.

Alongside an amazing gathering of 100s of scientists and science communicators, we brought an opportunity to:
- play with fossils
- make brain hats
- get messy with different experiments
- see the unseen through microscopes
- and explore the blood, organs and neurons in our bodies.. what more could you want? 😍

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers, and to all the children, teens and adults who came through and visited our tables. You all brought such enthusiasm and curiosity - it was an absolute pleasure to be inside with you on a sunny Saturday in !

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

03/03/2026

Always a delight for Faraday Kids, and members of our wonderful network of speakers, to visit Gresham's School! We're so glad you enjoyed Steph and her traveling fossil collection 🦖🐟🪨, and look forward to visiting again soon.