A stint in a London classroom provoked a theologian and journalist to wonder if the way religion is taught in schools leads children to believe that it is irrelevant to their lives, and consequently whether Britain should follow the American approach and leave it out altogether Recently I have been doing a spot of school teaching – religious education among other subjects. It got me thinking. What – if anything – should children be taught about religion at school? In the United States for example, it is left out of the syllabus altogether. That does not strike me as disastrous, given my experience in the classroom. In one class of 13-year-olds I took, we looked at the story of Abraham. “What other religions beside Judaism see Abraham as a founding figure?” I