A message from the Director of the Susanna Wesley Foundation, Sue Miller
The New Creation Project
The New Creation Project looks at creative ways in which church and church communities can engage productively with the natural world.
Podcast 1: Access, Power, Lament
In this podcast we explore experiences of church during lockdown and what we can learn as we move forwards.
A Northern Gospel
Nigel Rooms summarises his research project with Ellie Wort into contextual theology in the north of England. Download or read online the summary here.
Theological reflection on Methodist church leadership – Sam McBratney
From the 2018 SWF conference ‘Leaderful Church?’, SWF Research Officer Sam McBratney offers his theological reflection on leadership in the Methodist church.
Leaderful Church: a storytelling approach (video) – David Sims
From our 2018 conference ‘Leaderful Church?’, plenary speaker David Sims’ presentation on the role of story in church leadership. The accompanying slides are also available via this website.
Leaderful Church: a storytelling approach (slides) – David Sims
From our 2018 conference ‘Leaderful Church?’, this set of powerpoint slides accompanies plenary speaker David Sims’ video presentation, also available via this website.
Aire & Calder circuit – adapting church structure to maximise resources
In this case study from the SWF Changing Church conference, Colin Ride explains the process by which a new Methodist circuit was created out of four in the Leeds District.