From Marvel to Mary: Creative Hooks for Teaching Theology Welcome to my second blog post! In this post, I’ll be sharing creative methods for engaging students with Religious Education, focusing on an activity I tried with my students to make the concepts of typology and foreshadowing in the Bible accessible and engaging. This method was used in a lesson part of a scheme of work on worldviews and disciplinary knowledge, with a particular focus on theology. One of the activities required the students to explore how Christian theologians interpret the Annunciation story in Luke's Gospel. Firstly, they were asked to read the passage and identify key details, such as Mary's reaction to the angel’s message, how she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit, and how she visits her cousin Elizabeth. Next, I introduced an unexpected analogy: a slide featuring chocolate Easter eggs and a clip from the Marvel film Iron Man , where Captain Americ...