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 Methodist pursuit of holiness has, over 200 years, branched off in some startling directions. A conversation with Tom Oden. The story of the Wesley brothers doesn’t end with their deaths. Their ...

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 ...

Kenneth Rowe, a historian who was known as the leading United Methodist bibliographer, died on October 8. He was 84. “He completely reshaped how we understand the narrative of Methodism in America, ...

The headline in the Nov. 21, 1918, issue of the Centenary Bulletin read, “Whole Country Hears of Little Elmira Church.” The article stated, “Elmira has the honor of leading all Methodism in the ...