Two decades after New Calvinism, some young Christians are turning to Methodist history for theological sustenance. Shawn Hamilton does what a lot of college-aged guys do on Christian campuses. He ...

Methodism enjoyed widespread growth in America in the middle to late 1700s and 1800s because of its "circuit riders." Circuit riders, also called "saddlebag preachers," were a different kind of clergy ...

After this week’s UMC votes on LGBTQ issues, African Methodists should join American conservatives in the new Global Methodist denomination. That was fast. In the first General Conference since the ...

John Philip Koeller's family has an interesting lineage connected to Alsace, France, a region that was at one time part of the German Empire. His great-grandfather took part in the French invasion of ...

One of the most famed religious conversions since that of St. Paul, and probably the best-documented in modern times, was that of John Wesley, founder of Methodism. To a recent Roman Catholic student ...

LATE LAST YEAR, dozens of faculty members at Southern Methodist University publicly opposed plans by President Bush to locate his presidential library on SMU’s campus in Dallas. Now, ten bishops of ...