The services will feature talks, inclusive music, and opportunities for community reflection. All are welcome, regardless of ...

Karen Kistler [email protected] SALISBURY — First United Methodist Church of Salisbury is welcoming a new senior pastor as his first Sunday preaching will be July 13 during the 10 a.m.

American Methodism was formally established in 1784, just after the Revolutionary War. The new denomination grew rapidly along with the new nation in numbers, geography, and prestige.

A Sunderland church is celebrating its 120th anniversary with a stunning display of tapestries. Officials at Roker Methodist Church are urging people to come along and view the ‘one day only’ ...

She writes of a small but growing movement in American Methodism. In England its strongest organizational expression is the Methodist Sacramental Fellowship, formed 1935, and in the United States ...

Methodism is in theological crisis, and if she does not return to the faith of Paul and Luther and Wesley and Clarke she shall cease to be a vital influence. The Organizational Predicament.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include: -- John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, in 1703 -- Musician Igor Stravinsky in 1882 -- Artist M.C. Escher in 1898 -- Writer John ...

“Methodism really took off in the U.S. more than it did in Britain,” said Matthew Wilson, an associate professor of political science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Methodism also has a long track record of advocacy for the rights of women, including the right to ordination, which some of those leaving the denomination oppose.

The Market-Street Methodist Episcopal Church, in Paterson, N.J., was crowded yesterday, the occasion being the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of that congregation.

On Aug. 7, United Methodism’s second- and seventh-largest churches by attendance, both in the Houston area, voted to quit the denomination.

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 ...