The Manchester Wesley Research Centre

Women, the Church and Ministry conference

2012-05-25T13:48:15Z

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

2012-04-24T13:20:14Z

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

2012-04-11T16:44:20Z

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

2012-02-11T18:21:18Z

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

2012-01-03T19:19:34Z

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.

Congratulations to 2011 Graduates

2011-11-16T13:04:03Z

The MWRC would like to congratulate Junior Fellows who completed their doctorates at partner institutions during the 2010-11 academic year. In Wesley Studies and Theology: Lord Elorm-Donkor, J. Russell Frazier, Marcie Huson, Stan Rodes, Robbie Brown (MPhil); in biblical studies: Rhonda Crutcher, Svetlana Khobnya, Kevin O'Brien, Sarah Whittle. Click here for details about their work.

Asbury University becomes a partner institution of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre

2011-10-23T20:42:03Z

The MWRC is pleased to welcome Asbury University as its ninth partner institution. For an NCN News story regarding this new partnership, click here.

Publication of Wesley and Methodist Studies volume 3

2011-08-05T15:49:09Z

We are pleased to announce the publication of Wesley and Methodist Studies volume 3. For details on the contents of the volume and information on purchasing it, click here.

Recording of 2011 Annual Lecture

2011-07-12T13:13:00Z

Professor Richard Heitzenrater's Annual Lecture titled '"An Exact Image": Portraits of John Wesley' is now available to be listened to as a audio file along with the accompanying Power Point as a PDF file. There is also an NCN News story about the lecture.

Fourth Annual MWRC Postgraduate Colloquium

2011-06-02T11:04:30Z

The MWRC is pleased to annouce the upcoming MWRC Postgraduate Colloquium featuring five papers from our own Junior Fellows: Chris Foster, Josh McNall, Joseph Wood, Jefferey Rudy and Arseny Ermakov. These papers constitute a wide variety of biblical and theological studies.

This free event is scheduled for Friday 17 June 2011 from 9am to 1pm on the campus of Nazarene Theological College. For more information and to book in advance for a free light lunch please contact Dr Geordan Hammond.

Click here for event poster.