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Wendy J. Deichmann

Deichmann, a John Wesley Fellow, is professor of history and theology at United Theological Seminary, Dayton, OH. Her areas of teaching and research include the history of Christianity, American religious history, women in the history of Christianity, historical theology, and Wesleyan/United Methodist studies.

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Our Heritage of Revival
While many yearn for religious revival of some sort, revivals and revivalism have their critics. Nonetheless, the fact is that revival and revivalism have...
  • Church Renewal, Conversations
  • May 1, 2023
  • Wendy J. Deichmann
The United in United Methodist
It may come as a surprise to the uninitiated in United Methodist history that the word United was not originally, formally associated with “the...
  • Conversations, Historical Theology / Church History, Wesley and the Methodists
  • October 17, 2022
  • Wendy J. Deichmann
Reform and Separation from a Wesleyan Perspective
When efforts to reform one’s church fail, is separation a prudent choice? Or is it better to spare the church yet another division and...
  • Conversations, Wesley and the Methodists
  • May 2, 2022
  • Wendy J. Deichmann
The Wesleyan Tradition’s Long Road to Reclaiming the Ancient Church’s Practice of Ordaining Women
Although John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, respected and employed women in ministry, neither he nor his early successors in the eighteenth century advocated...
  • Conversations, Preaching and Pastoral Leadership, Wesley and the Methodists
  • February 28, 2022
  • Wendy J. Deichmann
Divine Call and the Historic Struggle over Women’s Roles
In a previous Catalyst blog entitled “The Biblical Basis for the Ordination of Women in the Wesleyan Tradition,” I described various patterns of women’s...
  • Conversations, Historical Theology / Church History, Preaching and Pastoral Leadership
  • October 18, 2021
  • Wendy J. Deichmann
The Biblical Basis for the Ordination of Women in the Wesleyan Tradition
In the past month or so, those of us in the Wesleyan theological tradition have been privileged to witness the ordination of numerous women...
  • Conversations, Preaching and Pastoral Leadership
  • June 28, 2021
  • Wendy J. Deichmann
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