Why do we do what we do the way we do? How changing the way we think about the Church can help us lead real change in the Church. A Workshop for Methodist Presbyters, Deacons & Lay Workers led by the Revd Keith Elford held on Monday 18th April 2016 held at Wesley’s Chapel & Leysian Mission. The […]
Catholic Women Speak: Bringing our gifts to the Table – London Book Launch at Roehampton University on 20th January.
On Wednesday 20th January 2016, the University of Roehampton celebrated the launch of the UK publication, Catholic Women Speak: Bringing Our Gifts to the Table. Catholic Women Speak is a groundbreaking, thought-provoking anthology of essays on women and family life that asks questions and explores issues that do not find space for open discussion in the […]
Rethinking Church as an organisation: Keith Elford on beginning a new PhD
Starting out: Keith Elford reflects on what led him to embark on a PhD examining what may be learned from thinking about the Church as an organisation. The Church has been around rather longer than most organisations so might be considered the archetypal example but to what extent is it right to see the Church […]
How Luke Curran uses Lego for exploring organisational development
In the late 1990s the CEO of the Lego Corporation was interested in improving the quality of the strategy formation within the company. A Swedish academic suggested that he should use his company’s own product to do this and Lego Serious Play (LSP) was born. Today LSP is an established facilitation technique which encourages collaboration, […]
Faith in the future: organisation, power and trust – MODEM’s 2015 conference
MODEM’S 2015 conference was held at Sarum College on 3/4 December. Some 40 delegates heard keynote talks from Professor Veronica Hope Hailey, Dean of the School of Management at the University of Bath on Faith in the future – learning to trust, and Revd Dr Justin Lewis-Anthony, Associate Dean of Students at Virginia Theological Seminary […]
Interrogating gender binaries in the Bible and Christian spirituality – transgression, transfiguration and transcendence. Conversation between Sue Miller and Sharon Ferguson
Transgression, Transfiguration, Transcendence: interrogating gender binaries from the perspectives of Christian spirituality and the Bible Sue talks with Sharon about her PhD. Sue Miller is the Susanna Wesley Foundation’s Principal Research AssociateRevd Sharon Ferguson is a PhD Student sponsored by the Susanna Wesley Foundation Sue:This is an exciting and emerging theology, so where in the Bible is […]
The future of diversity and inclusion in churches – adaptation, discomfort, enrichment. Conversation between Sue Miller and Joanne Cox-Darling
Gender Diversity Leadership – continuing the conversation A conversation arising out of the conference Gender Diversity Leadership run by SWF in summer 2015. At that conference a number of practitioners were asked to be part of a panel in which they responded to questions around the conference themes. The final session of the conference was […]
Lazarus come out! Reflections from the Gender Diversity Leadership Conference
Reflections from our Gender Diversity and Leadership Conference, hosted by the Susanna Wesley Foundation and held at Southlands College, University of Roehampton from 18th-19th June 2015. Reflector: Elena Greer A man struggling with his own body as though with a burial shroud, determinedly wrestling against himself, a blur of limbs in an ordinary room beside […]