How does what we teach shape who feels they belong? Vicki Garlock reviews Indu Viswanathan’s *Hindu at Heart*, exploring Hindu American experiences, education, and belonging.

How does what we teach shape who feels they belong? Vicki Garlock reviews Indu Viswanathan’s *Hindu at Heart*, exploring Hindu American experiences, education, and belonging.
Great session at NCAEE exploring religious literacy through picture books! Thank you to the educators building curiosity, understanding, and respect in K–5 classrooms. This work can begin with a story.
📷 Vick Garlock
#NCAEE26 #ReligiousLiteracy
Tomorrow, I’ll be at the NCAEE State Conference at William Peace University sharing ways to bring religious literacy into the K–5 classroom through picture books. Hope you can join us.
Just finished Derek W. Black’s Schoolhouse Burning. It has me thinking about school as a laboratory for democracy. How can student voice, inquiry, and religious literacy bring that idea to life?
Religion, identity, and popular culture meet in Doctor Fate, Vol. 1: The Blood Price. Khalid Nassour’s story raises a question that interests me: How do comics shape the way we imagine religious traditions and the people who live them? #ReligiousLiteracy #DoctorFate @drofcomics.bsky.social
Pretty cool to see my book on Amazon! 📚 Bringing Religious Literacy to the Classroom reflects my passion for helping students understand diverse perspectives and learn across differences.
Take a look: bit.ly/4xx7g9i
185 places of worship in one month! Vicki Garlock, Education Director of Religion Matters and Guinness World Records holder, shares six tips for planning your own visit.
Read her tips: bit.ly/46tHFDg
As we remember 9/11, Infidel offers a way to reflect on Islamophobia: What happens when fear defines how we see our neighbors? Religious literacy asks us to challenge assumptions and understand people beyond labels. CIO: imagecomics.com/comics/serie...
Religious literacy starts with curiosity. Join me Oct. 3 at NCAEE in Raleigh to explore how picture books help K–5 students ask questions, understand diverse lived experiences, and build belonging. #NCAEE #ReligiousLiteracy
Honored to keynote the Sikh Coalition’s The Mosaic of Light on October 10! I’ll explore the heart of religious literacy: lived religion, identity, and pluralism.
Join us virtually at 12 PM ET.
Register: bit.ly/3T1dkZr
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Jon Resendez explores how Jonathan Rauch’s Cross Purposes can spark classroom inquiry into Christianity, pluralism, and American democracy.