Another potential hindrance for Global Methodism is that its churches are largely confined to “red” exurbs and have little presence in America’s cities or inner suburbs. Its U.S. membership is ...

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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 ...

In the summer of 2016, Karen Oliveto, a “self-avowed practicing homosexual,” was elected and consecrated a bishop and assigned to the Mountain Sky Area of the Western Jurisdiction of the United ...

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) — It was 250 years ago this month that Francis Asbury, ...

Where is Methodism going? The writer does not really know where Methodism is bound. Like the mythical bird that flies backward, he only knows where he has been. One might say that Methodism is going ...

There are people in the pews, dollars in the collection plates, and 65 million Americans who claim to be Protestants. But the outwardly prosperous Christian churches are beset with inner anxiety.

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 ...

When a denomination decides that one of the world's best-known Wesleyan seminaries is no longer suitable for training Methodist ministers, something extraordinary has happened. The United Methodist ...