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 […]
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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 [Edit: see here]. Writing about open and relational theology, his […]
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 […]
Research report: A Shared Mission for Justice: Catholics and Methodists Working Together in Social Action
We’re pleased that the Southlands Methodist Trust was able to support research culminating in this report by our University of Roehampton colleagues Dr Clare Watkins and Dr James Butler. Find out more at the launch event, May 25th, 2023, 11.30, online and in person. Contact James for details. At the heart of this project is […]
Research report: Ashes to Ashes – attitudes to death and dying
In collaboration with Theos Thinktank, we’re delighted to present this report: Ashes to Ashes: Beliefs, Trends, and Practices in Dying, Death, and the Afterlife, produced by SWF Senior Researcher Lia Shimada and Theos’ Marianne Rozario. Report summary: This project investigated current trends on, and attitudes towards dying, death, and the afterlife in the UK, and […]
Research report: Feeling Connected? Methodists’ awareness of organisational structures within the Church
Executive summary: This report outlines the findings of a preliminary study, funded by the Susanna Wesley Foundation, on the awareness of local congregation members of the different structural layers of the Methodist Church carried out by Dr Krystin Zigan, with Dr Alan Le Grys. Based on 24 semi-structured interviews with Circuit leaders, Ministers, lay leaders […]
RGTRP seminar: Process theology, freedom and power
Seminar presentation by SWF’s Emma Pavey