Overview The Susanna Wesley Foundation is delighted to offer the Susanna Wesley Visiting Fellowship, an opportunity for from outside the Methodist Church in Great Britain area to spend up to two months in residence during the academic year (a period between September and December or between January and June) for research and knowledge exchange. Offering […]
Project – The Confession Project
The Confession Project Summary The Confession Project explores what confession of sin looks like in British churches today — whether practised privately before God or shared with others — and what God offers to those who engage in it. It asks how these practices connect to biblical and theological themes, and where they do not. […]
Report – Edgy Faith and Learning
We’re pleased to release the project report into a project SWF supported in collaboration with the St Peter’s Saltley Trust entitled Edgy Faith and Edgy Learning, written by Dr James Butler, Prof Clare Watkins and Dr Ian Jones. Using theological action research methodology, the team worked with seven groups who identified themselves as ‘edgy’. Visual […]
Report – Holy Communion online
We’re pleased to report on a project looking at online communion in the Methodist Church. The team write: In this project, led by Dr James Butler and Dr Ash Cocksworth, we seek to surface and reflect on the theology embedded in the practice of online celebrations of Holy Communion in the Methodist Church in Britain. It contributes to a […]
Conversations with SWF Sponsored DTh Students
The Susanna Wesley Foundation was pleased to invite Doctor of Theology students Rachel Summers and Kirstyn Oliver for conversations with Sue Miller earlier this month. Both Rachel and Kirstyn have received support from the Susanna Wesley Foundation toward the funding of their doctorate. Rachel, a third-year curate in the Diocese of Chelmsford, shared with Sue […]
TAR Field Guide
We’re delighted to have produced a Theological Action Research Field Guide that has been created by our friends at the Theology and Action Research Network (TARN) and edited by Stefanie Conradt. Funded and designed by the Susanna Wesley Foundation, this is an invaluable help to those considering using theological action research in their work. The […]
Susanna Wesley Fellows
We were delighted to be joined in recent weeks by our first Susanna Wesley Fellows, visiting scholars who benefited from a period researching and writing up their project hosted by the Susanna Wesley Foundation at the University of Roehampton. View the video below to learn more about the Rev’d Hilde-Marie Øgreid and Kari Hay and […]
The Rev’d Dr Andrew Dunlop
We are delighted that one of our sponsored doctoral students, Andrew Dunlop, has completed his PhD project. We congratulate Andrew on this huge achievement. The title of his dissertation is: Catholicity and Connection: an ecclesiological framework for the mixed ecology discerned through research in an Anglican team ministry. His abstract follows: The mixed ecology is […]