In this episode James is joined by Debbie Tibbey. Debbie was born into a Christian family in the North East of England in the 1960s. At the age of 18, she found out about the Bahá’i Faith and after investigating the religion for a year or so, she declared her faith in Bahá’u’lláh and became a Bahá’i. After studying Drama and Art to degree level in Liverpool she trained as a primary school teacher, a career which spanned almost 30 years, and included teaching posts in various parts of UK and in Eswatini (still Swaziland in the 1990s) where she helped to establish a Bahá’i-run primary school open to children of all ethnicities, faiths and backgrounds. She has served on NASACRE, the REC and the Expert Advisory Group for RE as well as on Dorset SACRE as the Bahá’i representative.

She now teaches and mentors teenagers with additional needs at an independent specialist school which holds great importance on mental wellbeing, creativity and the importance of animals and the outdoors.

She married to artist and sculptor Charles Tibbey and they have two grown sons and a very elderly cat.

In this episode James is joined by Dr Ranvir Kanwar Singh. Ranvir is a teacher and while a Board Member of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales introduced the concept of worldviews to religious education. Prior to this, he served on the executive of the World Congress of Faiths and has written a Key Stage 3 textbook on Sikhism. He was the architect of paragraph 67 of the Durban Declaration which recognised Sikhs as a qaum or people.

In this episode James is joined by Waqar Amedi. Previously a journalist, Waqar has been teaching RE for 19 years, and been Head of Department for 14 years. Presently he is Head of RS at Prior's Field School in Godalming, Surrey. He is the author of several textbooks and revision guides for GCSE and A Level RS, and has run CPD and student events across the country. Every year Waqar travels to Pakistan to train secondary teachers in Rabwah, his mother’s birthplace. He has been on the NATRE Executive Committee since 2021. He is a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, whom he serves as a coordinator of various educational projects. He is on the editorial board of the community's international magazine, The Review of Religions.