Podcast 20: Challenging Hope: surviving conflict, building peace This special conversation is a continuation of a conversation that began at our annual conference in June 2024 between Dr Oded Adomi Leshem and Dr Munyurangabo Benda. You can find their presentations, and the start of that conversation on our youtube channel. Listen to the episode here or […]
SWF Annual Conference – a day of Challenge and Hope
“You curated a powerful and stimulating day with emotional and cerebral provocations. I have much to digest and reflect on.” On 18th June we gathered for our annual conference entitled ‘Challenging Hope’ along with contributors and participants from across the globe and a wide range of disciplines, walks of life and backgrounds. “I appreciate the […]
Podcast 19: The Next Right Step: community, resilience and death
The Next Right Step: community, resilience and death This conversation is part of a miniseries of three episodes that emerge from our recent report on death, dying and afterlife beliefs and practices which you can read here. In this third episode of the three, guest host Lia Shimada (Senior Research Officer, SWF) is joined by […]
SWF 10th Anniversary Symposium and celebration dinner
Welcome to the celebration of 10 years of the Susanna Wesley Foundation! Wednesday 26th March, 2025 We are delighted to have you with us. As part of our commitment to sustainability, you will find useful information for the symposium and celebration dinner below as pdfs, including the programme, campus map, and biographies of contributors. These […]
Research Report: Reclaiming Local Lay Ministry for Mission
Replanting in the Same Pot: Reclaiming Local Lay Ministry for Mission is an action research project led by Erica Dunmow, an organisational development, fresh expressions, and urban mission practitioner, working with Dr Delroy Hall, pastor, counsellor and equalities practitioner. They had a vision that churches could be revived and made more missional through a focus […]
Podcast 18: Beauty and Sorrow: the afterlife and a “good death”
Podcast 18: Beauty and Sorrow: the afterlife and a “good death” This conversation is part of a miniseries of three episodes that emerge from our recent report on death, dying and afterlife beliefs and practices which you can read here. In this second episode of the three, Emma Pavey is joined by the Revd Prof […]
Podcast series around death, dying and afterlife practices
We’ve produced a ‘mini-series’ of three podcast episodes emerging from a research report on Death, Dying and the Afterlife, co-produced by SWF and Theos Thinktank. Here, SWF researcher Dr Lia Shimada introduces the series and her motivation for the research: Like many people, I had given little thought to dying. It would happen someday, somehow, […]
Podcast 17: Into the earth and into the light: practices around death and bereavement
Into the earth and into the light: practices around death and bereavement This conversation is part of a miniseries of three episodes that emerge from our recent report on death, dying and afterlife beliefs and practices which you can read here. In this first episode of the three, Emma Pavey is joined by funeral director […]