April | 2019

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 1st April 2019

MODEM Matters E40

The latest edition of MODEM Matters has just been sent. Click here to read more. Content includes: MODEM Conference 2019 MODEM 2018 Conference Report From the Chair: Anxiety and the Holy Spirit Upcoming Susanna Wesley Foundation Events: – Creating Compassionate Communities of Inclusion: enabling and disabling theology – Methodist Annual Research Conference 2019 Peter Bunker…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 1st April 2019

2018 MODEM Conference Report: Power and Powerlessness

Conference report from David Sims and Sue Miller The theme of our 2018 Conference was ‘Transforming communities: power and powerlessness’. Our speakers were Nigel Rooms and Anna Ruddick, with poetry from Lucy Berry. Both Nigel and Anna addressed the theme of power and change in the church and community, and addressed this from the perspectives…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 1st April 2019

From the Chair, David Sims: Anxiety and the Holy Spirit

When I was a child there was a book called the ‘Age of anxiety’ on the bookshelf, although I don’t remember anybody ever looking at it. The title always fascinated me as a concept. Why would anyone let anxiety last for an age? Surely they would do something about it? On the other hand, it…