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 ...

THE history of a religious denomination is in itself a matter of no small importance. Taken in connection with other ecclesiastical bodies as a portion of the data in estimating the national ...

The origin of Scranton’s first Methodist Church reaches back to the Battle of Wyoming in the late 1700s and a Kingston blacksmith who credited God with his survival. A 1968 Scranton Times article ...

Includes discussion of James T. Campbell's Songs of Zion: the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa (1995).

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 ...

Methodism in Chesham goes back to the mid-eighteenth century, but it is not one continuous history. This is the ...

In the wild pioneer days of Arkansas in the late 1800s, tragedy was common and families could easily be torn apart by a sudden twist of fate. The most vulnerable in society, the children, were so ...

The United Methodist Church is splitting with more conservative churches forming the Global Methodist Church. Organization that formed the new Methodist denomination meets days after new denomination ...