The Power of your Own Voice: community arts, social justice and crafting hope In this conversation, part of our Crafting Hope series, Emma Pavey is joined by Gauri Taylor-Nayar and Rachel Griffiths to talk about the role of community choirs and community theatre work for crafting hope together in our local communities. Listen to the […]
Discover the research projects that SWF engages in.
Article: “Does not wisdom call?”: faith learning in Methodist practice
An open-access article has been published in Anvil journal based on research by SWF Director Sue Miller, Stan Brown and Graham Jones. The article can be read here. Introduction The mission of the Methodist Church In its foundational documents, the Methodist Church in Britain “ever remembers that in the providence of God Methodism was raised […]
Book Review – Hope: the Dream we Carry
Tia DeNora, Hope: the dream we carry (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021) In brief: Emma Pavey reviews Hope: the dream we carry by Tia DeNora and finds many thoughtful starting points for developing thinking about crafting hope in faith communities. DeNora emphasizes hope as an active, creative, and socially situated endeavour, focusing on its role in various […]
New research: Cultural Fellowships and Language Congregations in the Methodist Church in Britain
Here, SWF’s Senior Research Officer Lia Shimada describes SWF’s latest research project. Anecdotally, we know that the Methodist Church in Britain (MCB) has never been more diverse – culturally, socially, linguistically. Across the Connexion, Methodists and other Christians worship in many ways and in an unknown number of languages. This collaborative project aims to: Research […]
Book review: Hope in the Age of Anxiety
As part of our theme, Crafting Hope, Emma Pavey reviews Hope in the Age of Anxiety, a guide to understanding and strengthening our most important virtue by Anthony Scioli and Henry B. Biller (2009 Oxford University Press). In brief: Hope in the Age of Anxiety by Anthony Scioli and Henry B. Biller provides a thorough […]
Article: The pedagogical challenges of teaching theology and mission to students from non-traditional diaspora churches in Britain
A peer-reviewed, open-access article has been published based on research by a team of researchers from the University of Roehampton, funded by the Susanna Wesley Foundation. The article appears in Practical Theology and can be read here. Abstract This paper reports the findings of a research project into Ministerial Theology Programmes (MTPs) at three Higher […]
Book Review: The Death of Omnipotence and Birth of Amipotence
Here Emma Pavey reviews Thomas Jay Oord’s new book The Death of Omnipotence and the Birth of Amipotence (2023 SacraSage Press). Thomas Jay Oord is an ordained minister and theologian in the Wesleyan, Holiness, and Church of the Nazarene traditions and is from the USA. Writing about open and relational theology, his views are sometimes […]
Book review: This Sacred Life
This Sacred Life: Humanity’s Place in a Wounded World by Norman Wirzba (Cambridge University Press 2021). Review by Emma Pavey. ******** In his book This Sacred Life, Norman Wirzba seeks to address three questions: where are you, who are you and how should you live? He seeks to consider these alongside each other, a grounded […]