Events

Our annual programme includes talks, tours, heritage services, lunchtime ‘soup and study’, special events, including Museums at Night and study days.

Download What’s On 2018 here.

Event Information:

  • Sat
    14
    Jul
    2018

    'More Light, Less Heat'? Study Day

    10.30-3.30 Englesea Brook Chapel & Museum

    Did the Primitive Methodist Arthur Samuel Peake, the Wesleyan Joseph Agar Beet, and others, by enabling their students to accept biblical criticism and by adapting tradition to modern insights, help to take Methodism forward into the 20th century and beyond or merely drive the first nails into its coffin?

    Programme for the day

    10.00   Tea and coffee on arrival

    10.30   Revd Dr Martin Wellings, Oxford Memorial Church, Methodist historian
    The Preacher and the Modern Mind: A Wesleyan Methodist Case Study in Light and Heat'

    11.30    David Young
    Change and Decay : Primitive Methodism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

    12.30    Lunch

    13.30    Rev Simon Sutcliffe, Queen's Theological College, Immerse community
    talk on the debate in the church today (title to be confirmed)

    14.30   Discussion and debate

    Cost:  £10.00 (which includes lunch)

    Please contact us to book your place.