We are pleased to announce the following new appointments to the editorial board of Wesley and Methodist Studies.

• The Revd Dr Martin Wellings, Superintendent Minister of the Oxford Circuit and President, World Methodist Historical Society is the book reviews editor.
• Kenneth M. Loyer, doctoral candidate at Southern Methodist University, as assistant editor.
• Joseph W. Cunningham, doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester (Nazarene Theological College), as assistant editor.
• Dr Rachel Cope, editorial research fellow at Brigham Young University, as copy editor.

The second volume of Wesley and Methodist Studies is expected to be published in late spring 2010.

Dr Philip Meadows, Lecturer in Missiology and Wesleyan Studies at Cliff College will deliver the 6th MWRC Annual Lecture. Its tentative title is 'A Journey into God: A Wesleyan Theology of Evangelism'. The lecture will take place on the campus on Nazarene Theological College on Monday 14th June 2010 at 5pm.

The editors of Wesley and Methodist Studies are seeking an energetic and enthusiastic scholar to become honorary book reviews editor of this annual publication. The closing date for applications is 20 December 2009. For further information, click here. 

The MWRC would like to congratulate Junior Fellows in Wesley Studies who completed their doctorates during the 2008-09 academic year.  Michael T. Burns and Karl L. Ganske graduated from Nazarene Theological College and Thomas Glenn Jackson 'Jack' graduated from Cliff College.

The Manchester Wesley Research Centre and Didsbury Press are pleased to announce the publication of Wesley and Methodist Studies volume 1 (WMS).  For the contents of volume 1 and information on purchasing it, click here.   

WMS is a collaborative project of the MWRC and The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University.

WMS is now accepting essay submissions for future volumes. For further details, including style notes for contributors, visit the WMS website.

For the full length press release, click here.

The One Day Theology Conference will be at Nazarene Theological College on Saturday 6 June from 9.30am-2.30pm. Click here for a conference poster.

The Second Annual MWRC Postgraduate Colloquium will be on Wednesday 10 June 2009 from 9.30am-2pm. The Colloquium will feature three papers from MWRC Junior Fellows and close with a paper from Dr David Rainey on 'John Wesley and the Postmodern Condition'.  Click here for a Colloquium poster.

'Religion, gender, and industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting', 16-18 June, an international conference co-sponsored by the MWRC.

The 2009 MWRC Annual Lecture will be delivered on Friday 19 June by Dr Bruce Hindmarsh, James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College, Vancouver. The lecture is entitled: 'Wesley Agonistes and the Calvinist Sublime: The Spiritual Ideals of the Early English Evangelical School.' For a lecture poster which you are welcome to print and distribute, click here. For a short description of the lecture, click here.

This lecture will take place at 5pm at the J. B. Maclagan Chapel on the campus of Nazarene Theological College.

Directions to Nazarene Theological College

A lecture by Dr Randy Maddox, Professor of Theology and Wesleyan Studies at Duke Divinity School will be given at Nazarene Theological College on Tuesday 4 May 2009 at 4pm. The lecture is entitled: 'Holistic Salvation: A Widening Theme in Wesley's Theology'. For a lecture lecture poster which you are welcome to print and distribute, click here.

The draft conference schedule is now available. The conference fee will be £250 inclusive of accommodation, transportation to conference sessions in Madeley and Coalbrookdale, and meals at the University of Telford (Priorslee) campus. Accommodation will be in single rooms with en-suite facilities. A 10% discount is available to students. Daily non-residential attendance rates are also available from £30 per day. Registration for the conference is now open. Follow this link to dowload a registration form

The Manchester Wesley Research Centre and the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History are co-organizing an international conference: 'Religion, gender, industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a local setting'.  This conference will be held from 16-18 June 2009 in Madeley and Ironbridge, Shropshire (UK).  Submissions of short papers are invited for the conference seminar sessions.  Any paper proposals should be submitted to the conference organizers by 23 January 2009.  Please visit the conference website for further information and feel free to contact the conference organizers.  We hope to see you in June!     

The MWRC would like to congratulate Junior Fellows in Wesley Studies who completed their doctorates during the 2007-08 academic year.  Geordan Hammond and Barbara Prosser graduated from The University of Manchester in July and Greg Crofford graduated from Nazarene Theological College in October.  Congratulations are also due to Robert Snow and Mary Spaulding for graduating from NTC in biblical studies.