Manchester Wesley Research Centre

The 21st Annual Meeting of the Charles Wesley Society on the theme of 'Charles Wesley as Correspondent' will meet at Nazarene Theological College from 18-20 July 2010. For a draft programme, click here. For further information, including a booking form, click here.

Dr Philip Meadows, Lecturer in Missiology and Wesleyan Studies at Cliff College will deliver the 6th MWRC Annual Lecture. The lecture 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.

A lecture by Ted Campbell, Associate Professor of Church History at Southern Methodist University, will be given on Monday 10th May 2010 at 4pm at Nazarene Theological College. The lecture is titled 'John Wesley's Disconnections, 1756-1760'.

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 spring/summer 2010. To view the contents page for the volume, 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.