Methodism took root in England at Oxford University in 1729. Forty-four years later, the sect had reached the “Holston Country,” the rugged American frontier region where Indians posed resistance. One ...

The Methodist Church may no longer be the largest denomination in America. Its rate of growth not compare well with that of Protestantism in general. For the past six years there has been a decided ...

Gender, emotion, medicine, electricity, ecology, literacy, rhetoric—these terms are a little thin in the indices of the standard books on John Wesley and the history of Methodism. More typical would ...

(RNS) Decades ago it never occurred to me nor to many evangelicals in United Methodism that our church's membership decline and theological liberalism in America would be reversed by dramatic growth ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT The relationship between Methodism and the armed forces dates from the very early days of the movement. The Methodist soldier ...

Methodism enjoyed widespread growth in America in the middle to late 1700s and 1800s because of its "circuit riders." Circuit riders, also called "saddlebag preachers," were a different kind of clergy ...

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John Wesley, co-founder (with brother Charles) of Methodism: You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go not only to those that need you, but to those ...

So Thatcherism is rooted in Methodism (Why we should be wary of injecting too much morality into economics, 3 March)? My recollection of Methodism 70 years ago was its emphasis on selflessness, ...

Coming to college, I shoved my religion forcibly to the back of my brain. For once I didn’t have to look for the twinge in my father’s eye as I declined his grey slacks, button down and trips to ...