The Christian tradition has not been a hotbed of democratic ferment. For most of its existence, Christianity has found itself the subject of pagan or
In the latter half of the third century CE, the early church had been free of persecution and had not only grown in numbers but
Concern for idolatry permeates the Scriptures. If idolatry is understood as turning away from God and placing one’s trust in someone or something else, it
One of the prominent movements influencing American politics today is Christian nationalism. This is not a new phenomenon. Christian nationalism in one form or another
In the previous Consider Wesley, we saw that John Wesley’s answer to why the Methodists, despite the advantages given them by their doctrine and discipline,
John Wesley had an optimism of grace. He witnessed in thousands of lives what the power of God could do. When he thought of all
In the previous Consider Wesley we looked at the promise of holiness, that is, of restoring the image of God to humans such that they
From time to time those of us in the Wesleyan tradition pause to remember from whence we have come. From its modest beginnings in the
John Fletcher, from the 1760s to his death in 1785, was recognized along with John and Charles Wesley as a major leader in Methodism. Born
Elmer Colyer’s The Trinitarian Dimension of John Wesley’s Theology (New Room, 2019) is by far the most extensive examination of Wesley’s trinitarianism. In it Colyer