Women, the Church and Ministry conference

For details on the various programmes for the events which took place, including several published news stories and a resolution passed in support of the conference by the Scottish Parliament, visit the conference website.

Two Publications

Wesley and Methodist Studies volume 4 has now been published. Full details can be found on the WMS website. Religion, Gender and Industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting has been released in the UK by James Clarke & Co. Further details can be found on the James Clarke website.

Appointment of Summer 2012 Visiting Fellows

The MWRC would like to congratulate Dr David McEwan on his appointment as an MWRC Visiting Research Fellow and the summer 2012 Visiting Fellow from Point Loma Nazarene University: Dr Rebecca Larid. McEwan will be researching love, holiness, and happiness in the thought of John Wesley, and its implications for spiritual formation, and Laird's research will focus on Olive Winchester.

Women, the Church and Ministry: Celebrating 100 years of women’s ordination in the UK

This conference in Glasgow from 11-13 May 2012 has been organised in response to the 100th anniversary of the ordination of Olive Winchester [photo], the first woman to be ordained in a Trinitarian Christian Church in the UK on 11 May 1912 in Glasgow, and also the first woman to graduate with the Bachelor of Divinity degree from Glasgow University. While the motivation for the event is inspired by the ordination of women in the Church, the conference seeks to reflect on and celebrate all women in ministry, lay and ordained. For further information, click here.

New Publication

The MWRC is pleased to announce the publication of Religion, Gender, and Industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting (Pickwick Publications, 2011) containing select papers from the 2009 conference of the same name held in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History.