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 ...

When a publishing company in the cradle of Methodism needed an editor to compile a new book on Methodist studies, it chose a historian with roots in one of the tradition's American cradles. The Rev.

The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture, by Dee E. Andrews, Princeton University Press, 2000, 367 pp.; $59.50 The title of Dee Andrews’s superb ...

This is one of a series of stories related to the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Methodist leader Francis Asbury in the United States. (RNS) — Two and a half centuries ago, Francis Asbury arrived ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Disagreements in The United Methodist Church about human sexuality extend as far back as the birth-control movement of the 1920s, says Ashley Boggan Dreff, Ph.D., in ...

The church has long delayed an anticipated split over LGBTQ issues — until now. It’s not going to be easy. As some in North Carolina look to disaffiliate from UMC for more conservative theology, ...

Two years and 150 days after Pearl Harbor, the Methodist Church endorsed the war. The Church told its 8,000,000 members that their prayers for the 1,000,000 Methodist servicemen and women, the 1,300 ...