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Category: Wesley and the Methodists

Building a Theological Bookshelf: Wesley/Methodism

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

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May 3, 2023 No Comments

The Constantinian Fall of the Church

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

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February 8, 2023 No Comments

On Spiritual Idolatry

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

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November 16, 2022 No Comments

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 people

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October 17, 2022 No Comments

On the Altering of Hymns

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

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July 18, 2022 No Comments

After (United) Methodism

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

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May 9, 2022 No Comments

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 do

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May 2, 2022 No Comments

On Self-Denial

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

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March 2, 2022 No Comments

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 for

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February 28, 2022 No Comments

Doctrine and Discipline

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

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November 24, 2021 No Comments
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