Registration is now open for the 2026 Wesley Studies Symposium on April 28 at Tyndale University, featuring Dr. David Bundy.

Dr. Bundy, who currently serves as Associate Director of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre, is a leading expert on Methodist, Holiness, and Pentecostal history, who has extensive international experience. He has degrees from Seattle Pacific University, Asbury Theological Seminary, the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), and Uppsala University (Sweden). Bundy has taught at dozens of theological schools around the world and served as a librarian and faculty member at Asbury Theological Seminary, Christian Theological Seminary, and Fuller Theological Seminary.

Dr Bundy’s keynote address is entitled, “Redeeming Humanity in Flawed Empires: Radical Holiness Networks, Social Systems, and Social Gospel in France and the United Kingdom 1870-1930.”

The Symposium will also feature the following presentations:

• David Carr, “Cleansing and Community: Disability, Purification, and Corporate Agency in Mark’s Gospel”
• Kimberly Lai, “Women, Scripture, and Interpretation in Eighteenth Century Methodism: The Case of Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher”
• Matthew McEwen, “Faith and Patience in the Funeral Hymns of Charles Wesley”
• Jeff McPherson, “Artificial Intelligence in Light of a Theology of the Cross”
• Chris Payk, “Embattled Bishops: Chen Wenyuan and the Beginning of the Restriction on Religious Freedoms in the Early People’s Republic of China” [via zoom]
• Victor Shepherd, “‘Do You Fear Spoiling Your Silken Coat?’ John Wesley on Money, Mammon, and the Meretricious”
• Mark Wahba, “Comparing John Wesley’s Doctrine of Christian Perfection and the Eastern Orthodox Dogma of Theosis”

Registration is available for in-person and online attendance, with generous discounts for students.

Register here for the Symposium