That promise of "Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors." reflects the biblical foundation of the Methodist Church and its founder, John Wesley. Wesley believed in taking the church to the people and ...

One of the most famed religious conversions since that of St. Paul, and probably the best-documented in modern times, was that of John Wesley, founder of Methodism. To a recent Roman Catholic student ...

John Wesley United Methodist Church is on the National Register because of its historic sanctuary in downtown Greenville. But the church at 101 E Court St. also is historic because of those who helped ...

Aled Jones is in Bristol to celebrate the legacy of John and Charles Wesley.

In 1766 Philip Embury and a handful of John Wesley’s disciples organized the first New World preaching societies of Methodism, which then was merely a dissident Anglican sect. Last week more than ...

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Even the most devout Methodists will be excused if they’ve never considered what their denomination’s founder’s kitchen looks like. I have stood in it. I was on a tour of the John Wesley House and ...