Wesley House, Cambridge

Join us for this in-person lecture with Joerg Rieger Page

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It was good to welcome friends to our annual open day. Here is Richard welcoming our guests, Nicola and Helen handing out apples of peace and Zhongya Shao, Senior PhD Student, talking about her story and her vision as a Chinese Christian in mainland China, the USA and here in Wesley House.

There will be a service of thanksgiving for the life and ministry of Rev Dr Peter Charles Graves at 12 noon on Monday 22nd July 2024 at Wesley Methodist Church, Christ’s Pieces, Cambridge CB1 1LG.

Peter went to glory on Sunday 26th May and his funeral service took place last month. Peter's family are grieving the loss of a husband, father and grandfather. They know that he was also a friend and pastor to many as testified to in the numerous cards and letters that they have received. They now want to give thanks for his life and ministry and invite all to join them for the thanksgiving service.
“You can shed tears that he is gone, or you can smile that he has lived…” David Harkins

Bible Beyond Boundaries

Join us in Cambridge on Saturday 29 June for a one day course with Professor Sarojini Nadar and Professor Johnathan Jodamus.

Bible Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Gender, Migration, and Intersectionality at Centre for Faith in Public Life, Wesley House Tickets are now available for Bible Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Gender, Migration, and Intersectionality at Centre for Faith in Public Life, Wesley House, Cambridge on Saturday 29th June 2024. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

Our Senior Tutor and Acting Vice Principal, Dr Richard A. Davis sporting The Revd Dr Brian Beck's gown on his return from the Divinity Faculty Exam Board. Carrying the weight of Wesley House's history and Tutors past.

End of year service and dinner. 2023-24 is a wrap. Thank you to everyone who has been part of our work this year. And goodbye and godspeed to Liam and Tiger.

End of term. Punting, picnic and quiz...

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THE 28TH EPISODE now available of Revd Professor John Jillions' blog on how our Orthodox institute was established 25 years ago in Cambridge. The Icon of Christ the Teacher painted by Aidan Hart, commissioned by IOCS to mark its 25th anniversary, shows in the background (right side of Christ) a fragment of Wesley House, Cambridge - the hospitable college on the premises of which Father John Jillions founded our Institute 25 years ago. To the left of Christ can be seen a fragment of the Cambridge University Library. The depiction of these two elements is a first in Orthodox iconography.

Father John's blog is based on his journal entries and is now released for the first time.

This blog is kindly offered as part of our celebrations for the Institute's 25th anniversary.

https://www.iocs.cam.ac.uk/a-blog-by-the-founding-principal-of-iocs/

Thanks to Dr Medi Volpe and the organising team for the CTF research conference this week hosted by Wesley and Westcott.

Now learning from Wan-Yin Lim. The calculating of pleasure Pain Mechanism. Representing Wesley House, Cambridge

This evening the Cambridge Theological Federation said farewell to this year's cohort of students. Wesley House DTM student, Tiger Li, from China, gave his testimony about the intellectual value of studying the relationship between faith and science, the pastoral value of his placement with the healthcare chaplains of the Cambridge University Healthcare Trust and the spiritual value of singing with St Edmunds choir while in Cambridge. If you would like to study for a year in Cambridge, get in touch.

Join us here in Wesley House for a day course, "Bible Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Gender, Migration, and Intersectionality". 10am to 5pm on Saturday 29 June.

The course is led by Prof Sarojini Nadar, Senior Professor and the Desmond Tutu Chair in Religion and Social Justice at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Prof Johnathan Jodamus, Associate Professor in New Testament, Gender, and Race at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

For more details, and to sign up, please visit https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wesley-house/

Reflective Pastoral Supervision skills for groups in clinical settings. Addenbrookes chaplainsat Wesley House this week reflecting together on their work in the hospital.

Join us for The Revd Dr Brian E Beck Memorial Lecture and Open Day on Saturday 6 July 2024

Honouring Brian's legacy, through funeral donations his family established the Brian E Beck Memorial Fund to support teaching and research into Methodist theologies. This year our annual open day will include the second Brian E Beck memorial lecture, given by The Revd Canon Dr Julian M. Pursehouse. Julian is an alum of Wesley House and is the current Chair of the East Anglia Methodist District until moving into a new role later in the summer. We are delighted that Julian will be present in person to give this lecture on the subject of "The Complete Art of Happiness - Engaging with Wesley through a Theology of Happiness’.

We would love to welcome you to Wesley House on 6 July for this lecture, afternoon tea and a service of evening prayer at which the worship will be led by our new Director of Reflective Pastoral Supervision, The Revd Nicola Vidamour, and our senior PhD student from Mainland China, Zhongya Shao.

If you can't make the trip, the lecture will be streamed so perhaps you can join us online.

For further information and to sign up for joining us in person or online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wesley-house/brian-e-beck-memorial-lecture-and-wesley-house-open-day/e-mbpvme

Donations are invited in Brian's memory to the Brian E Beck Memorial Fund at https://www.supportwesley.com/beck-memorial

Old and new.. Contemporary members of college and alums of 80s, 90s and 00s vintage gathered yesterday for worship and tea.

Welcome to Liam King who joins us this term from Young Harris College in Georgia for a programme of supported reading and supervisions on discipleship, 1st century culture and Wesleyan Theology with World class scholars Profs Judith Lieu and Paul Chilcote.

It was good formally to welcome The Revd Nicola Vidamour yesterday to the Wesley House staff team. Nicola is directing the work of the college in Reflective Pastoral Supervision. There are still a few places on our July certificate and diploma courses. Apply now!

Holiness 9.1 is now published! Within it we have investigations that range from hymnody to history, education to intersectionality, archival study to biblical theology, and, naturally, from Ghana to Bolton. 9.1 features articles from Adam Ployd, Paul Chilcote, Clive Field and the 2023 IAMSCU keynote from Bishop Emmanuel Asante, alongside book reviews from Michael Wilson, Hannah Bucke and Andrew Stobart and represents an enormous breadth to dig into. Most excitingly, our first non-English articles lay within it in the form of French and Portuguese translations (formulated by Claude Kimpinde and Priscilla Garcia respectively) of Bishop Asante's keynote which we hope will open the wisdom within it to an even wider audience. As ever we dearly hope you enjoy!

If you have any questions or queries or would like to submit a piece of your own please email the editor Joseph Powell at [email protected]

https://sciendo.com/issue/HOLINESS/9/1

We still have a few spaces left on our Supervision courses in Cambridge this summer.

The Certificate in Reflective Pastoral Supervision is on 1-5 July and the Diploma in Reflective Pastoral Supervision is on 15-19 July.

Contact us to book a space: [email protected]

Thank you to Paul and Janet Chilcote for treating us to a Pizza Party. We're loving having you back in the Wesley House community.

Wesley House leads worship at Wesley Church, Cambridge

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What are the points of connection between the Methodist and Benedictine traditions? Wesley House went on pilgrimage today to Bury St Edmunds to find out. Thanks to Paul W. Chilcote for leading the group today.

Wesley House at the UMC General Conference? Thanks Mark Davies for the photo of the GBHEM stand. We are with you in Spirit and are holding you all in the light.

It was a great joy to welcome new students to Wesley House at our online service today. We look forward to walking with you during your time with us.

There's still time to sign up for this event. Bookings close on Tuesday, 23rd April.

Join us on 1st May with Woolf Institute to discuss this important report, one year on.

The Review was written by Colin Bloom, an Independent Faith Advisor. It appeared in April 2023 following an extensive public consultation to which 21,000 people contributed. The Review makes 22 recommendations to government on the role of faith in society, covering a range of topics from faith literacy to education to marriage to chaplaincy to extremism. While many have welcomed its call for increased understanding of and attention to faith in the public sector, many have also criticised its descriptions of believers and its concentration more on the dangers of religion than on religions’ positive contributions to society.

The aim of the event is to scrutinize the Review critically by bringing together key experts in faith and public life representing a variety of faith communities and equipped to address the diverse sectors engaged with by the Review, as well as to identify what is missing from it.

https://bloomreview.eventbrite.co.uk

Wesley House Cambridge and Wesley Church Cambridge are delighted to invite you to the welcome service for the Revd Nicola Vidamour who has been appointed as Director of Reflective Pastoral Supervision for Wesley House from 1 May 2024.
We begin with worship at Wesley Church, Christ’s Pieces at 4pm. The service will be led by the Cambridge Circuit Superintendent, the Revd Rose Westwood, and Wesley House's Principal, The Revd Dr Jane Leach, will be the preacher. Afterwards you are invited for refreshments and fellowship in the Dining Room of Wesley House.

The event is free but please sign up for the tea so that we can cater appropriately. https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wesley-house/welcome-service-for-revd-nicola-vidamour/e-rldldz

Donations will be for the Brian E Beck Memorial Fund for the development and teaching of Methodist theology.

We are excited to welcome Helen Barrs to the team today. Helen is our new Operations Manager and comes to us from the Porters' Lodge at Magdalene.