Susanna Wesley Foundation
Listen to conversations between theologians, ministers, practitioners, artists and more around our annual themes that include flourishing, embodied faith and crafting hope.
Intro/outro music by Joseph McDade
Episodes
20 episodes
Challenging Hope: surviving conflict, building peace
This conversation is an extension of one that began at our annual conference in June 2024. Dr Emma Pavey is once again joined by: Dr Oded Adomi Leshem, peace activist and Senior Research Associate at Hebrew University; a...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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53:45
The Next Right Step: community, resilience and death
In this podcast episode, part of a mini-series on death, dying and afterlife, guest host Lia Shimada is joined by: The Revd Dr Alex WimberlyRuth Jampelwho talk about practices around death in their communi...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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52:20
Beauty and Sorrow: the afterlife and a "good death"
In this podcast episode, part of a mini-series on death, dying and afterlife, Emma Pavey is joined by: The Revd Prof June Boyce-Tillmanwho offers her own personal and unique perspective on death and the afterlife, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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39:50
Into the Earth and Into the Light: practices around death and bereavement
In this conversation, part of a mini-series on death, dying and afterlife, Emma Pavey is joined by: Poppy Mardall, Funeral Director and Founder of Poppy's Funerals; and The Revd John Lampard, Methodi...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:11:35
Naming the Grace: faith learning in church communities
In this conversation, part of our Crafting Hope series, Emma Pavey is joined by: Prof Clare Watkins, Professor of Christian Faith and Practice at the University of Roehampton; and The Revd Simon Sutcliff...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:02:33
The Power of your Own Voice: community arts, social justice and crafting hope
In this conversation, part of our Crafting Hope series, Emma Pavey is joined by: Gauri Taylor Nayar, Director of the Cardiff Methodist Community Choir; and Rachel Griffiths, Participative Theatre Mak...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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59:21
The No Normal: neurodiversity and youth in the Church
In this conversation, part of our Crafting Hope series, Emma Pavey is joined by: James Carver is the Youth President of the Methodist Church; and James Blackhall is a Lay Worker and Local Preacher as...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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37:05
The Real World: Intergenerational and technological balance in a climate crisis
In this conversation, part of our Crafting Hope series and the third in our trilogy of episodes around the climate emergency, Emma Pavey is joined by: Dr Elin Kelsey, a leading spokesperson, scholar and educator in the area of ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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54:04
Listening to echoes of hope: Evidence-based climate stories and a hopepunk God
In this conversation, part of our Crafting Hope series, Emma Pavey is joined by Dr Elin Kelsey, a leading spokesperson, scholar and educator in the area of evidence-based hope, and Dr Steven van den Heuvel, Associate Professor of Systematic The...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:03:03
What is in your hands? Crafting hope with churches in a climate crisis
In this conversation, part of our Crafting Hope series, Emma Pavey is joined by Hannah Fremont-Brown, Campaigns and Church Engagement Officer at the Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT) and Dr Steven van den Heuvel, Associate Professor of Systematic...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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35:02
Meditative movement: running and embodied faith
In this episode, the Revd Trey Hall, Director of Evangelism and Growth at the Methodist Church, and
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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48:57
African Christianity in the UK: Pentecostalism and embodied faith
In this episode we welcome guest host Dr Harvey Kwiyani, a Malawian theologian based in Britain who is CEO of Global Connections and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:03:32
If you want to go far, go together: solidarity and embodied faith
SWF host Emma Pavey is joined by the Revd Luke Larner, Priest-in-Charge at St Andrews, St Albans, and DTh student at the U...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:20:19
Out of the ordinary: creation and embodied faith
SWF host Emma Pavey chats with Dr Nick Mayhew Smith, author and Deputy Head of Southlands College at the University of Roehampton, and former Methodist Church Youth President
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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58:12
See what the Light is doing: photography and embodied faith
We welcomed Rev Dr Thomas Jay Oord, theologian/author, Director of both a doctoral program at Northwind Theological Seminary, USA, and the Center for Open and Relational Theology, and...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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50:31
People, poverty and power: bending toward justice
In this conversation, Dr Justin Thacker, former Director of Church Action for Tax Justice, and Lucy Zwolinska, for...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:04:16
Flourishing, glory and the smile: unmasking joy
In this conversation, Dr Ash Cocksworth talks with Sue Miller about his theological rese...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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39:38
Transitioning Church: Queer stories of cost, risk and gift
This conversation welcomes Father Jarel Robinson-Brown, Assistant Curate at St Botolph-without-Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories, London, and the Revd Dr
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:01:37