I am often asked to recommend a book on some aspect of Wesleyan Studies. I love books and enjoy questions that press for clarity. A
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
It may come as a surprise to the uninitiated in United Methodist history that the word United was not originally, formally associated with “the people
I recently attended a Sunday morning worship service at a non-United Methodist congregation. To my surprise, the opening hymn was Charles Wesley’s “O For a
As of May 1, the largest body of Methodists in the world has split, officially, into The United Methodist Church (UMC) and the Global Methodist
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 do
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
Although John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, respected and employed women in ministry, neither he nor his early successors in the eighteenth century advocated for
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