Schedule &

Lodging Information

2026 Annual Meeting

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Affiliate Society

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GSTS Meeting

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Affiliate Societies

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Friday March 20, 2026

Wesleyan Theological Society

8:00-8:30 a.m.
Registration

8:30-9:00 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Worship

9:00-10:00 a.m.
Plenary Address: Jennifer Powell McNutt

10:00-10:30 a.m.           
Break/Refreshments

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.    
Concurrent Sessions #1 [see below]

12:00-1:30 p.m.             
Lunch; Meeting of the Executive Committee

Box lunches available for pre-purchase.

1:30-3:00 p.m.               
Concurrent Sessions #2 [see below]

3:00-3:30 p.m.              
Break/Refreshments

3:30-5:00 p.m.              
Concurrent Sessions #3 [see below]

5:00-5:40 pm                
WTS Business Meeting

6:00-8:00 p.m.               
Awards Banquet Dinner

8:00-9:00 p.m.               
Dessert Receptions:

Manchester Wesley Research Center Reception

John Wesley Fellows/AFTE Reception

Nazarene Reception

Saturday March 21, 2026

8:30-9:15 a.m.               
Worship with Eucharist

9:30-10:30 a.m.             
Presidential Address: Jennifer Woodruff Tait

10:30-11:00 a.m.           
Break/Refreshments

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.    
Concurrent Sessions #4 [see below]

Lodging and Transportation options for SPU.

While we don't have a specific conference hotel, here are some hotel options (of varying price and quality), all of them about 2.0-2.5 miles from the SPU campus: 

  • Courtyard by Marriott Seattle Downtown/Lake Union: 206-213-0100

  • Travelodge by Wyndham: 206-962-8678

  • Fairfield by Marriott Inn and Suites Downtown/Seattle Center: 206-443-2012

  • Holiday Inn Seattle Downtown/Lake Union:  206-728-8123

  • Holiday Inn Express and Suites:  206-441-7222

  • Four Points by Sheraton Downtown Seattle Center:  206-282-2600

  • Hampton Inn & Suites Seattle-Downtown: 206-282-7700

  • The Maxwell Hotel:  206-286-0629

  • MarQueen Hotel:  206-282-7407

  • Mediterranean Inn:  206-428-4700

  • Homewood Suites by Hilton:  206-281-9393

  • Hyatt House Seattle/Downtown: 206-727-1234

  • Hyatt Place Seattle/Downtown:  206-441-6041

  • Seattle is one of the most expensive cities in the U.S.  Hotels can be very pricey, but there are Airbnb and VRBO options relatively close to campus.  If you decide to stay at an Airbnb, we suggest that you choose one in the Queen Anne neighborhood (which is the neighborhood that SPU is in, and accessible by foot or by bus routes 4, 13, 31, or 32).  Other nearby neighborhoods are Fremont (walkable to campus or bus routes 31/32), Interbay (bus route 32), Magnolia (bus route 31), Wallingford (bus routes 31/32) or Ballard.

  • Public bus routes (King County Transit) are handy to campus, specifically Routes 4, 13, 31, and 32.  A fare card (ORCA card) or the exact amount of cash ($2.75/ride) is needed.  There is also ample free parking at SPU and renting a car may be your best option for getting from SeaTac Airport and to and from SPU and your lodging, especially since Uber and Lyft can be expensive (typically around $90 each way from the airport to SPU). 

  • Seattle's March weather is typically cool and damp, with average highs around 51-54 degrees and lows around 39-42 degrees.  Expect a mix of rain and sunshine, requiring layers and waterproof clothing.

Wesleyan Historical Society
Wesleyan Dogmatics Group
Nazarene Historical Society
Graduate Student Association

Concurrent Sessions

Friday March 20
10:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

  • Biblical Studies I - Location TBA

    What Are the Signs That a Wesleyan Biblical Interpretation Is Happening? (How Do We Know a Wesleyan Biblical Interpretation When We See It?)

    (Panel Discussion)

    This session will be a panel discussion that is part of a yearly working group exploring the general question, “What Is Wesleyan Biblical Interpretation?” This session will consider the question, “What are the signs that a Wesleyan biblical interpretation is happening? (How do we know a Wesleyan biblical interpretation when we see it?)” Each panelist will present for ten minutes. Then the presider will facilitate an extended discussion with the panelists and audience.

    Jennifer M. Matheny, Presiding

    Panelists: Brad E. Kelle, Rob Wall, Stephanie Smith Matthews, Renee Dutter Miller,

  • Historical Studies I – Location TBA

    Doug Strong, “Strangely Warmed, Strangely Free: Wesley’s Depiction of God’s Particular Providence”

    Mark Olson, “The Genesis of Christian Perfection as a Second Blessing”

    Sungsu Kim, “John Wesley's Sacramental Practice during his Oxford Period (1729-1735)”

  • Systematic Theology I – Location TBA

    Moderator: Tom McCall

    Kyle Barton, "Holy Revolt: Karl Barth's Doctrine of Sanctification"

    Jacob Lett, "Holiness as Natural End: A Retrieval of Maximus the Confessor on Creaturely Perfection and the Life of the Saints"

    Danny Quanstrom, "Holiness and the Divine Energies"

  • Intercultural Studies I – Location TBA

    Moderator:

  • Practical Theology & Christian Formation I – Location TBA

    Tammie Grimm, “Practicing Sabbath: Our Touchstone to Living a Sanctified Life”

    Brian Yeich, “Preaching Perfection: An Approach to Preaching the Grand Depositum”

    Lauren Palmer, “Wholehearted Transformation: Reintegrating the Affections in Christian Perfection”

    Anna Fitzgerald-Peters, “Holy Ground: Implications of a Theology of Place for Wesleyan Holiness Theology”

  • Theology, Culture, and the Arts I – Location TBA

    Kent Dunnington and Ben Wayman, “What’s Sport got to do with Discipleship?”

    Drew McIntyre, “What’s Eating Father Phil? Vocational Holiness in The Sopranos”

    Bailey Pickard, “Weeping as Jesus Did”

  • Liturgical and Worship Studies I - Location TBA

    Laura Dahl, “What Makes Liturgical Theology Theological?: Differentiating the Nature and Task of Liturgical Theology and Liturgical Studies”

    Jonathan A. Powers, “People, Place, and Presence: A Theology of Liturgical Participation”

    Kenny R. Johnston, ‘Veiled in Flesh The Godhead See’: Liturgy as the Propositional Conditioning of God’s Presence in Worship”

    G. Stephen Blakemore, “How Real is Real?: Toward a Wesleyan Metaphysics of Christ’s Eucharistic Presence”

  • Women’s Studies I - Location TBA

    Gerhard Mielke, “Second Blessing Preachers: Women Preachers in the Wesleyan/Holiness Movement”

    V. Jean Thomas, “Mothering: God, and the Mothering God: The Relevance of Biblical and Historical Narratives Today”

    Karen Strand Winslow, “Women in the Bible Model Holiness”

    Marie Gregg, “Woman, Who Condemns You? A Feminist Reading of Romans 8:1-4”

  • Special Book Panel on Phil Wingeier-Rayo's New Book:

    John Wesley and the Origins of Methodist Missions (Abingdon 2025)

    Panelists:

  • Philosophy I - Location TBA

    Brandon Yarbrough, “Entire Sanctification as the Experience of the Love of Friendship: Understanding Article 10 of the Nazarene Manual by way of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics”

    Robert J. Thompson, “Believing Faithfully: A Dispositional Account of a Christian Way of Life”

    Segbegnon M. Gnonhossou, “Hountondji’s Philosophy as a Catalyst for a Geopolitical Dimension of the Doctrine of Sanctification”

Friday March 20
1:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

  • Biblical Studies II – Location TBA

    Moderator: Brad E. Kelle, Presiding

    Frederick David Carr, “Cleansing and Community: Disability, Purification, and Corporate Agency in Mark’s Gospel”

    Lindsey Wells-Martsolf, “The Manifestation of Holiness: A Wesleyan View of Yahweh's Glory in Isaiah 6”

    Michael Falgout, “Heart Holiness and the Sacramental Epistemology of Hebrews”

    Rebecca Copeland, “Rewilding the Parables: Recovering Social Holiness in the Teachings of Jesus”

  • Historical Studies II – Location TBA

    Darrel Poepelmeyer, “Mapping Entire Sanctification Across Three Nazarene Eras (1905-2008)”

    Caleb Black, “The Exegetical Basis of Entire Sanctification according to the American Holiness Movement”

    Nicholas Black, “Entire Sanctification As Experiential Confirmation: The Doctrine of Entire Sanctification in the American Holiness Movement as an Experiential Reinterpretation of the Patristic and Medieval Rite of Confirmation.”

  • Systematic Theology II – Location TBA

    Moderator:Tom McCall 

    Russell Frazier, "The Wesleyan Doctrine of Prevenient Grace: Convergences and Divergences"

    Curtis Holtzen, "Holier Than Thou? Try Trustworthy"

    Stephen Rankin, The Wesleyan Optimism of Grace: In Conversation with Simeon Zahl"

  • Location TBA

    Special Panel – Kenneth Collins new book Generous Divine Love: The Grace and Power of Methodist Theology

    Chair: Steven Hoskins

    Presenter: Kenneth Collins

    Respondents:  Phil Meadows, Ryan Danker

  • Practical Theology & Christian Formation II – Location TBA

    Dean Blevins, “Holiness on the Spectrum”

    Christine Youn Hung, “The Neurotheology of Safety A Theology of Love and Trinitarian Belonging as Pathways of Sanctifying Grace”

    Steve Johnson, “Forming Faithful Lives through Faithful Beginnings: Revisiting John Wesley’s Instructions for Children for Today’s Child Discipleship Practices”

    Ivelisse Valentin, “Piety to Collective Praxis: The Lord's Prayer as a Theological Framework for Social Holiness and Justice”

  • Liturgical & Worship Studies II - Location TBA

    Colton Castle, “Grace, Presence, and Personhood: John Wesley’s Understanding of the Real Presence of Christ and ‘Uncreated’ Grace in the Eucharist”

    Wesley Custer, “The Posture of Lament and the Hope of Eternity in the ‘Hymns on the Lord's Supper’ by John and Charles Wesley”

  • Moral Theology I - Location TBA

    Hannah Grubbs-Oechsle, “Towards a Wesleyan Moral Psychology: Aldersgate and the Epistemic Function of the Emotions”

    Sean Baz-Garza, “Wesley and Calvin, Virtue and Sanctification,”

    Dave Lunn, “Wesley, Virtue, Sanctification, and Evil” 

  • Ecumenical & Interfaith Studies I - Location TBA

    Jonathan Sutter, "Comparing Oranges and Mangoes: Exploring the actuality and exclusivity of entire sanctification through prison rehabilitation programs"

    James Mwita, “The Relationship of Wesleyan Conceptions of Holiness and Sanctification to Similar Conceptions in African Traditional Perspectives”

  • Theological Education I - Location TBA

    Patrick Oden, “Educating Holiness: A Wesleyan Vision for Holistic Transformation”

    Rev. Dr. Mindi Grieser Cromwell, ““We Choose to Travel Light”: The Sisters of Loretto Reexamine their Apostolate of Education”

Friday March 20
3:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

  • Historical Studies III – Location TBA

    Anders Holmen-Crow, “John Wesley and Clement of Alexandria: Christological Divergences”

    Richard Clark, “The ‘Head’ and the ‘Heart’ in Classical Pietism and Classical Arminianism”

    Abram Book, “John Wesley and the Early Practice of Crisis Communication in Eighteenth Century England”

  • Systematic Theology III – Location TBA

    Moderator: Esther Chung
    Justus Hunter, "Scotus for Wesleyans"

    Joel Chopp, "Your Bones Shall Flourish Like the Grass: Death, Personal Identity, and Resurrection in Wesleyan and Early Protestant Theology"

    Panel Discussion: Justus Hunter, Joel Chopp, Daniel Castelo, and Esther Chung

  • Practical Theology/ Christian Formation III – Location TBA

    Jonathan Abernethy-Barkley “Shattered Holiness: When A Wesleyan Ideal Meets The #ChurchToo Movement”

    Aaron Gross, “Rethinking the Second Work of Grace Through the Lens of Trauma and Addiction”

    Wendy Mohler-Seib, Rachel Tiller, Maria Allen, “Resisting Distortion: A Theological Defense of Women’s Ordination in the Global Methodist Church”

    Suzanne Nicholson, “Snapshot of the Living Word: AI, the Means of Grace, and Spiritual Formation”

  • Philosophy II – Location TBA

    Thomas Jay Oord “God is the Ever Creator”

    Frank Lilley – “Divine Action and Christian Perfection”

  • Liturgical & Worship Studies III - Location TBA

    Hyemin Na, “Eucharist and Sanctification in an Age of Mediatization: Revisiting Online Holy Communion Conversation through Media Studies”

    Chanyoung Choi, “Preaching as Barrier or Carrier: Reclaiming the “Means of Grace” for the Church’s Sanctification”

    Stanley Pelkey, “Bringing History Alive: Adopting, Adapting, and Modifying Charles Wesley’s Poetry on Sanctification for Today’s Worshipping Church”

  • Moral Theology II - Location TBA

    David Field, “Holiness of Conversation and the Personalist Way of Life: John Wesley, Boston Personalism, and the Ethical Centrality of the Person in the Contemporary World”

    Christopher Momany, “Holiness and the Human Person: The Life and Theology of Asa Mahan”

    Trent Jones, “Enduring the Wilderness: Sanctification and the Role of Testing in Moral Formation” 

  • Intercultural Studies II - Location TBA

    Matthew Friedman,"Wesleyan Sanctification, Missional Theosis and Missional Praxis"

    Alexander J. Freytes, "Is Holiness Culture Dependent"

    O. Brent Dongell, "Clarifying Characteristics Of Effective True Community Toward Holiness through Spiritual Maturity From Gen Z's Voice"

  • Theology & Science I - Location TBA

    Logan Patriquin, “The Standard of Empirical Accountability in John Wesley’s Science-Informed Conservative Hermeneutic”

    Chris Willard, “The Apocalypse According to a Tech Bro: AI, Progress, and Competing Views of Social Holiness”

  • Theology, Culture, & Arts II - Location TBA

    Seamus Pilette, “Holiness in the Wasteland: Video Games as a Medium of Theological Reflection”

    Steven Vredenburgh, “Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Truth”

    Ebise Anisa, “Cinematic Christology: Challenges and Theological Implications of Christ’s Representation in Film”

Saturday March 21
11:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

  • Biblical Studies III - Location TBA

    Jennifer M. Matheny, Presiding

    Christina Bohn, “Holiness in Animal Consumption”

    Karen Strand Winslow, “Israel Fumbles and Falls: Daughters and Fathers in Judges”

    Caleb Daniels, “Discipling the Reader: The Ethiopian Eunuch as the Implied Reader of Acts”

    Abigail Paul, “Nothing vs. Everything: Do We Give Less When We Have More? A Brief History of the Interpretation of the Rich Young Ruler”

  • Historical Studies IV – Location TBA

    Andrew Stobart, “Joyful News: Holiness in Print and Practice”

    Daniel Flores, “The Warm Heart of Harold John Ockenga”

    Ryan Giffin, TBA

  • Women’s Studies II – Location TBA

    Janel Apps Ramsey, “Trad Wife"

    Lindsay Roman, “The “Remarkable” Eliza Suggs: Disability Liberation in the Free Methodist Church”

    Dara Delgado, "Do for He People, Her Community, and Her Church: Ida Bell Robinson and her transgressive approach to gender, authority, and economic agency in the Black Holiness—Pentecostal Tradition"

  • Special Panel – Location TBA
    Ecumenical and Interfaith Studies Special Panel on Jerome Van Kuiken’sn Reclaiming the Order of Salvation: Evangelical Wesleyan Perspectives, ed. Jerome Van Kuiken (Francis Asbury Society, forthcoming Fall 2025).

    Moderater Don Thorsen.

    Panelists: Justus Hunter, Doug Koskela, and Jason Vickers.

    Respondent to panelists, Ken Collins. 

  • Liturgical & Worship Studies IV - Location TBA

    Todd A. Stepp, “The Worship Foundations Behind John Wesley’s Doctrine of Holiness of Heart and Life”

    Heather B. Perez, “Divine Encounter and Transformation through “Discerning the Body”: Charles Wesley’s Hymns on the Lord’s Supper in Dialogue with The Imitation of Chris

    Ryan Giffin, “Social Issues Committee and the Church of the Nazarene: A Case Study”

  • Moral Theology II - Location TBA

    Maureen Knudsen Langdoc, “Holy Hell: Panic, Perfection, and the Wesleyan Pursuit of Holiness”

    Macie Nantze, “Built Environments as Barriers to Holiness”

    Tyler Womack, “Wesley and Work: Holiness Against the Entrepreneurial ‘Self’”

  • Philosophy III - Location TBA

    Panel: “Holy and Terrifying is God’s Name: The Works of God’s Hands are Justice and Truth”

    Panelists: Craig Keen, Nathan Kerr, Heather Ross, Eric Severson