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 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 […]
SWF Annual Conference 2024
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Learning opportunity
SWF is pleased to be supporting a project for Christians working to support refugees and asylum seekers, hosted at Durham University. The organisers invite participation and their deadline is Jan 19th 2024. They write: Free international reflective learning programme for Christians supporting refugees and asylum seekers in local communities across Northern, Eastern and Central Europe […]
Journal issue: Learning faith
The CMS (Church Mission Society) recently published an issue on the theme of Learning Faith. Here, issue editor James Butler tells us more. So much of people’s learning takes place in the midst of everyday life. As humans, we grow and change through our experiences, our interactions, and through life events, both big and small. […]