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 ...

The church has long delayed an anticipated split over LGBTQ issues — until now. It’s not going to be easy. As some in North Carolina look to disaffiliate from UMC for more conservative theology, ...

When a publishing company in the cradle of Methodism needed an editor to compile a new book on Methodist studies, it chose a historian with roots in one of the tradition's American cradles. The Rev.

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) — Two and a half centuries ago, Francis Asbury arrived ...

“I look upon the world,” said Methodism founder John Wesley, “as my parish.” If John Wesley had been in Springfield, Mass, last week, he would have been pleased to see how well his parish was ...

Two years and 150 days after Pearl Harbor, the Methodist Church endorsed the war. The Church told its 8,000,000 members that their prayers for the 1,000,000 Methodist servicemen and women, the 1,300 ...

During the Mississippi United Methodist Conference recently held in Tupelo, 189 churches statewide disaffiliated from the UMC members because of what local ministers described as differing religious ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.The Journal of Religion is one of the publications by which the Divinity School of The University of Chicago seeks to ...

Anthony Elia/Special contributor This column is part of our ongoing Opinion commentary on faith, called Living Our Faith. Get weekly roundups of the project in your email inbox by signing up for the ...

The Rev. Bonnie McCubbin’s first task in her new job as archivist for the local branch of a major denomination was far from soul-stirring. It was to sort through thousands of files assigned to her ...