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🔭🧫✝ 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!

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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

Prof. Michael Reiss – The Importance of Teaching about Science and Religion in a Time of Global Uncertainty | Faraday Institute for Science and Religion 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’.

📖⚛️🧪🧬🔬🔭 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!

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🧬🧪🔬 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 !

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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.

We loved hosting a group of wonderful students from King Edward VI High School for Girls as part of their visit to earlier this month.

After the students visited , and before they visited Great St Mary's, The University Church, Cambridge, we had great fun exploring how and might both form part of a rich tapestry of ways of knowing people can draw on, and bring together, as they approach big, interdisciplinary questions.

Thank you for travelling to Cambridge, and we look forward to seeing you again next year!

📚 Celebrating the 3 most sold children's books via the webstore in 2025!

❓ 101 Great Big Questions about God and Science (SPCK Publishing)

⭐ God's Cosmic Cookbook (Hodder Books Hodder Faith)

🔍 Book of Wonders (Scripture Union England and Wales)

You can explore more about these, and other science-faith, books via our Faraday kids website: https://www.faradaykids.com/resources/, or via The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion online store: https://www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/shop/

💬Please get in touch if you have any questions, or if you've already got your hands on these gems - we'd love to hear from you!

🔭Do and questions from young people excite you, leave you nervous, or maybe a bit or both?

🧬In an increasingly scientific and technological age, young people are exposed to many big, scientific ideas and advances and, for many, this will lead to questions about how science and technology interact with religious faith.

We hope to support youth workers who are keen to go on these science-faith discussion journeys with their young people, so we are delighted to announce training workshops on this topic, specifically tailored for youth workers working in Christian contexts.

The course consists of three sessions and will be run twice, with one cohort having sessions online on Mondays, and the other having sessions in-person, at Romsey Mill in Cambridge, on Fridays.

👥Dates for cohort A (in-person):
Friday 24th April 9am-12pm (in person),
Friday 1st May 9am-12pm (in person),
Friday 22nd May 10am-11.30am (online)

💻Dates for cohort B (online):
Monday 11th May 9am-12pm (online),
Monday 18th May 9am-12pm (online),
Monday 22nd June 10am-11.30am (online)

The cost is £30 but, if this will be problematic, please get in touch with us. We never want money to be the reason someone rules themselves out from attending.

If this feels like a topic you would like to invest time into, to support positive conversations with the young people you work with, we'd love to hear from you, and see you there!


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🎉Happy new year all! We thought we'd start as we mean to go on - by exploring exciting, interdisciplinary questions which can pull together ideas from , , and .

🤷Did your holiday include some wonderful science-faith questions from the young people in your life? Check out our newly added short response to the 📡"Does the idea of a prove that did not create the Universe?" (written in collaboration with mathematician and minister, Revered Rodney Holder).

💭We hope that the ideas and age-appropriate responses in the Q&A sections on our and websites will help fuel your conversations with young people this year, and encourage their curiosity to develop even further.

Visit our websites to explore this question, and many others!
For ages 2-11: https://www.faradaykids.com/topic/science-religion-space-and-the-big-bang/

For ages 11-18: https://www.faradaykids.com/teens/topic/science-religion-space-and-the-big-bang/

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🎉 We did it! 🎉

Thanks to your incredible support, we didn’t just meet our Big Give target—we surpassed it!
Together, we raised £77,351, reaching 103% of our goal, through the generosity of 57 donors (and our brilliant match funders).

This means our Youth & Schools team is ready to:
🌱 Deliver 60+ sessions
🌱 Train 100+ educators
🌱 Create more inspiring resources
🌱 Equip 1500+ young people to explore science, faith, and life’s biggest questions—with confidence and curiosity

From the bottom of our hearts: thank you for standing with us. 💚
Let’s keep growing.

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Eeeeeee, 75 minutes until our window closes!Wonderful pledgers have created a hugely generous match funding pot to double any support that comes in until 12 midday today! We're so grateful to all of you, for support, and for general encouragement.

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Your gift today supports hands-on sessions, teacher training, and creative resources that help children and young people explore science and faith with confidence and curiosity.

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